It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense to me to be as whole and well as I could be, and as happy. I wanted to see what a fortunate life would produce. What writing would come out of a mind that didn’t try to torment itself? What did I have to know? What did I have to do rather than what can I torment and bend myself into doing? What was the fruit on that tree?
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy. - Kay Ryan
I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.
- Kay Ryan
It isn't ever delicate to live. - Kay Ryan
It isn't ever delicate to live.
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody e… - Kay Ryan
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody e…
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. - Kay Ryan
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
Failure: the renewable resource. - Kay Ryan
Failure: the renewable resource.
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest. - Kay Ryan
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word. - Kay Ryan
As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.
A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world. - Kay Ryan
A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great. - Kay Ryan
Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
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