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Sharon Olds

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

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Sharon Olds

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

– Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven’t managed that with drinking!

– Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers – encouraging them to die.

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Sharon Olds

I’m probably so out of it at my age that I don’t know what people think.

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Sharon Olds

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn’t have time to do anything but work.

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Sharon Olds

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

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Sharon Olds

It might be a bad thing, not to know what’s going on in the world. I can’t say I really approve of it.

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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.

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Sharon Olds

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages’ horrors at the same time.

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Sharon Olds

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

– Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

Well, ‘The Wellspring’ was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others’ experience.

– Sharon Olds

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