I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
Marilyn Hacker

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
Marilyn Hacker

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
Marilyn Hacker

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
Marilyn Hacker

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
Marilyn Hacker

I'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

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Marilyn Hacker