Author: Donald Hall

Quotes

I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

- Donald Hall

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

- Donald Hall

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

- Donald Hall

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

- Donald Hall

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

- Donald Hall

I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

- Donald Hall

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

- Donald Hall

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

- Donald Hall

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

- Donald Hall

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