Sage Cohen > Quotes

“you may need to sit in a hermetically sealed space where not a peep penetrates.”
― Sage Cohen, The Productive Writer: Strategies and Systems for Greater Productivity, Profit and Pleasure

“If you love someone and they don't love you back, wait for them. If they still don't love you after waiting, they aren't really worth your time. Darn, why did I waste all that time waiting then?”
― Sage Cohen

“Whether you’re conducting phone interviews or simply need to hear yourself think, privacy is an extremely important variable in the writing life.”
― Sage Cohen, The Productive Writer: Strategies and Systems for Greater Productivity, Profit and Pleasure

“I’d say that most of these [poems in Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP] are just straightforward enough, but not entirely explainable or attributable to a single cause/effect, which makes them the kind of poems I want to read many times… “Salty as a lip” is my favorite. It’s so alive: strange and human / earthy and raw. Mysterious but grounded. Mashak has manifested paradox, it seems. Bravo!”
― Sage Cohen

“If there’s any way you can set things up so you’re not distracted by the sounds around you when it’s time to write, that is the ideal.”
― Sage Cohen, The Productive Writer: Strategies and Systems for Greater Productivity, Profit and Pleasure

“People who don’t write may not be able to imagine that you really and truly want to be in the closet with the door shut for three hours without talking to anyone.”
― Sage Cohen, The Productive Writer: Strategies and Systems for Greater Productivity, Profit and Pleasure