"I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps."

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Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

Pattiann Rogers

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Escaping Quotes

“I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.”
“Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.”

Source : Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.17, Highlights Press
“Trends toward increasing numbers of infection and increasing drug resistance show no sign of abating,”
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
“In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.”
“All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.”
“You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.”
“Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that,”

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