Top 23 Quotes by Sharon Olds

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.