“He could read the phonebook and make it sound terrific.”
Philip Levine
more infosource: describing Dylan Thomas in “A Useful Poetry,” interview by Wen Stephenson, The Atlantic, April 8, 1999.
category: Dylan Thomas, eloquence, phonebook, poetry, voice
medium: Interview
“My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have rewritten—often several times—every word I have ever published.”
Vladimir Nabokov
more infosource: June 5, 1962 interview at the St. Regis hotel in New York City, in Strong Opinions (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), 4.
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category: creative process, eloquence, vocabulary, writing
medium: Interview
eloquence