I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
Marilyn HackerThe pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn HackerI don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
Marilyn HackerI've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
Marilyn Hacker