"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."

-- Diane Wakoski

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“If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.”
“Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards kept going up with your skills, the business aspect of writing grows more complicated, and it becomes really hard to maintain any semblance of a balanced life the longer you're at this. No matter what level you're at, writing is always difficult.”
“Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.”

Source : Francine du Plessix Gray (1983). “World Without End”, Playboy Mass Market Paperbacks
“Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.”
“I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.”
“With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.
“This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.”

Source : Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.33, Ballantine Books
“I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.”

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