“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time. ”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?
From " Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", 1962”
― The Collected Poems
What did my heart do, with its love?
From " Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", 1962”
― The Collected Poems
“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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