Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

Basically when you're a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got a heart of gold; my heart's in the right place.

I was 17, on TV, and kind of thought, 'I'm awesome. Why don't you treat me like an adult?' I was arrogant.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

There are very few great poets in the world.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually. I'm a goalie/poet or a hotel guest/poet or a father/poet.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.