Anne Carson Quotes

I find it easier to tell someone what's in my head once it's on paper, rather than write with someone in mind.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

If you can talk, you can write.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.