"I decided very early that I wanted..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
More by Mary Oliver
“And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real”
“Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”
“I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.”
More on Writing
“No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.”
“The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)”
“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.”