Author: Sharon Olds

Quotes

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

- Sharon Olds

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

- Sharon Olds

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.

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

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

- Sharon Olds

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.

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

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

- Sharon Olds

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

- Sharon Olds

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

- Sharon Olds

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