List of Sharon Olds Quotes

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Sharon Olds
Total Quotes 52
It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. i can't say i really approve of it.
Appreciate World Might
I'm probably so out of it at my age that i don't know what people think.
Thinking People Age
When i quit all these things and said i didn't have any time, i meant i didn't have any time.
Quitting Said I Quit
At one point i took on a new job, and i just didn't have time to do anything but work.
Jobs New Job
The decision for me was whether to have 'the father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.
Daughter Mother Father
She'd crack a joke sharp as a tin lid hot from the teeth of the can-opener, and cackle her crack-corn laugh.
Grandma Laughing Teeth
So i did quit coffee and i did quit smoking. but i haven't managed that with drinking!
Drinking Coffee Marijuana
I have never thought i could take it, not even for the children. it is all i have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. but i come from a long line of women who put themselves first.
Children Pain Long
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. but it's wonderful. the community here at nyu is very precious to me.
Teaching Nyu Community
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. i think for many years i was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.
Thinking Air Years
Everyone is so different. i sometimes wish i wrote in a different way. you know, that feeling of: so-and-so writes slowly, if only i wrote slowly.
Writing Feelings Wish
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.
Dream Memories Ideas
  • Born: November 19, 1942
  • Occupation: Poet
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