"Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me."

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Source : "Thrilling Difficulty". Interview with Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, www.guernicamag.com. November 1, 2007.

Robert Pinsky

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“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
“Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.”
“The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.”

Source : "How to Survive a Scandal". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 10, 2014.
“I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.”
“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.
“I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition,”
“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”
“If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.”

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