Author: Carol Ann Duffy

Quotes

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

- Carol Ann Duffy

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

- Carol Ann Duffy

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

- Carol Ann Duffy

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

- Carol Ann Duffy

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

- Carol Ann Duffy

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

- Carol Ann Duffy

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

- Carol Ann Duffy

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

- Carol Ann Duffy

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

- Carol Ann Duffy

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