“Howard Gruber, a psychology professor at Rutgers, said, “One thing creative people have in common is energy. You frequently find that creative people go for a lot of walks.” “When I sit around with other poets and we talk about the times we feel like writing, often it’s after having done something physical,” Marvin told me. “One of the secrets of life is oxygen; the more you have, the better able you are to do everything, even write a poem.”29”
― We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
― We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
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