Carol Ann Duffy Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Prayer, Memorable, Writing

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

• Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Writing, Feelings, Trying

• I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Book, Writing, Way

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

• I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Writing, Poetry

• I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Writing, Arriving, Shapes

  "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

• If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Wedding, Grateful, Writing

  "U.K. Appoints First Female Poet Laureate". www.foxnews.com. May 01, 2009.

• I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Book, Writing, Fairy Tale

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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