Mary Oliver Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

  Mary Oliver

  Reading, Writing, Heart

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.oprah.com. March 9, 2011.

• As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Reading, Substance

• I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think— no, you will realize— that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.

  Mary Oliver

  Pain, Reading, Writing

• I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

  Mary Oliver

  Reading, Writing, Years

• It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.

  Mary Oliver

  Reading, Writing, Years

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