"I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite."

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Source : "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

Carol Ann Duffy

#Prayer Quotes #Memorable Quotes #Writing Quotes

“There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.”
“Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art â€” even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?”
“I've been sniffing out the guys in my English class (to the extent that this is possible without getting my throat cut), but they smell the same way they always do: like feet and testicles. As opposed to freesias. I don't want to keep sniffing them, Lyd. - Letter from Seb to Lyd.”
“Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.”
“Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.”
“Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.”
“Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. The second makes his head spin.”
“Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.”

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