Terry McMillan Quotes

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

I like poems that are complex.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Not everything can be solved quickly.

Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.

We put our music together, piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle.

When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.