The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.
I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be. - Selima Hill
I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.
- Selima Hill
When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary! - Selima Hill
When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall. - Selima Hill
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.
I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person. - Selima Hill
I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.
What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who… - Selima Hill
What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who…
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsess… - Selima Hill
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsess…
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy. - Selima Hill
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.
I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything. - Selima Hill
I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.
There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap. - Selima Hill
There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.
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