Fanny Howe Quotes

#1. See how you were talking to me before you even knew me?

Caroline Kepnes

#2. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

Fanny Howe

#3. I talk to my mom like any other kid talks to their mom when they live across the country. You call home and check in about what you ate for your breakfast or if I went for a run that day or if I was in a fight with my friend. It's so normal.

Cassidy Gifford

#4. If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

Fanny Howe

#5. The ring comes whenever it will
because it's dark
where the mountains mother
and being stuck in one spot
is something to ring bells about

Fanny Howe

#6. Why does a heart wear its eyes
into hell
like slivers of false sunshine

Fanny Howe

#7. In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

Fanny Howe

#8. I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Werner Herzog

#9. If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough ...

Fanny Howe

#10. I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

Fanny Howe

#11. The object of art is to give life shape.

Jean Anouilh

#12. Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

Fanny Howe

#13. When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

Steven Bochco

#14. It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

James F. Cooper

#15. I am willing to release that part of me that irritates me when I think of you.

Doreen Virtue