When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
I hung around New York and did a little stock-company stuff. I wasn't really sure at that time if I even wanted to be an actor. I got no encouragement.
The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.
I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.