I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
Sharon Olds

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
Sharon Olds

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.
Sharon Olds

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
Sharon Olds

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
Sharon Olds

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
Sharon Olds

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
Sharon Olds

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.
Sharon Olds