Carol Ann Duffy Quotes
"I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite."
- Carol Ann Duffy
"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Children, Theatre)
"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Day, Problems)
"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Abuse, Anxiety, Now)
"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Books, Writing)
"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Father, Belief, Christmas)
"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Childhood, Space)
"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Women, Poetry, Fiction)
"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Truth, Beginning, Trying)
"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Energy, Prose)
"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Poetry, Prayer)
"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Love, Poems)
"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Life, Light, Living, Treasure)
"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Feelings, Language, Poets, Trying, Writing)