An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
William Stafford'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
William StaffordThere is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
William StaffordA writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
William StaffordI have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.
William Stafford