Well, one thing I’m really interested in, when I’m writing, is being accurate. Sharon Olds Read Quote
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven’t managed that with drinking! Sharon Olds Read Quote
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers – encouraging them to die. Sharon Olds Read Quote
I was very afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do this job well. And the time never came back. Sharon Olds Read Quote
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages’ horrors at the same time. Sharon Olds Read Quote
Well, ‘The Wellspring’ was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others’ experience. Sharon Olds Read Quote
When I quit all these things and said I didn’t have any time, I meant I didn’t have any time. Sharon Olds Read Quote
I didn’t have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type. Sharon Olds Read Quote
