Anne Carson Quotes about Writing

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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

Anne Carson

Writing, Mean, Two

Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.109, Princeton University Press

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Anne Carson

Writing, Way, Life Is

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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Anne Carson

Dream, Writing, Keys

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Anne Carson

Writing, Sadness, Night

Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.35, Vintage

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Anne Carson

Believe, Writing, Ideas

"The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

Anne Carson

Writing, Acceptance, Thinking

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

Anne Carson

Writing, Drawing, Scary

Anne Carson Quotes about Writing

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