We sometimes received - and I would read...

Fairies

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

- Marilyn Hacker

Quote of the Day

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

- Elbert Hubbard

Other quotes by Marilyn Hacker

Possibilities

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

- Marilyn Hacker

Jobs

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

- Marilyn Hacker

Exercise Poetry

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

- Marilyn Hacker

Example Writing

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

- Marilyn Hacker

Language Sound

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

- Marilyn Hacker

Being

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

- Marilyn Hacker

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