Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
Dylan Moran (1971) Irish actor and comedian
'Why are you doing tha—' 'Enough questions, goodbye!'
On children's attitude.
Like, Totally (2006)
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
Sixty things for Sir Elton's 60th (2007)
Alice Oswald (1966) British poet
Get Writing (2004), as quoted in Modern Women Poets (2005) by Deryn Rees-Jones, p. 392
Context: Poems, like dreams, have a visible subject and an invisible one. The invisible one is the one you can't choose, the one that writes itself. Not a message that comes at the end of the poem, more like a pathological condition that deforms every word – a resonance, a manner of speaking, a nervous tic, a pressure. And this invisible subject only shows up when you're speaking the language that you speak when no one is there to correct or applaud you. Remembering that language is the whole skill of writing well.
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer