It takes a long time to publish a book. - Kenneth Koch

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Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

Kenneth Koch

It takes a long time to publish a book.

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You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

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All poetry comes from repetition.

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The subject matter of the stories on the surface. . . there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

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Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Four, Generations, Good, Maybe, Three

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

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Per Petterson

One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more too because the mirror in the hall has given up the ghost. A shipwrecked man without an anchor in the world except in his own liquid thoughts where time has lost its sequence.

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Cybill Shepherd

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

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Samuel Johnson

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

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Hilarie Burton

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Lev Grossman

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

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