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Rachel Bush Quotes

1941–2016 New Zealand

Rachel Bush (26 December 1941 — 23 March 2016) was a New Zealand poet and teacher. Her work was widely published in books, anthologies and literary magazines.

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Nobody has to be a writer. But when it’s going well it’s good fun and satisfying.

Sometimes writing can seem a bit lonely. But having a group of people you trust and with whom you can share your writing helps.

Yes, I suppose sometimes I do feel the opposite from inspired and can’t think how to begin or continue anything.

I don’t think I can answer this very well. There’s no single thing that is particularly hard for me.

Walking helps me to write. I’m pretty sure Fiona Farrell has written about how how walking helps her to write.

I don’t have a favourite genre. I try to ready widely.

Things that make me want to write vary.

I don’t often feel inspired. I try to keep writing and sometimes something unexpected happens and I find I’m writing more easily and confidently than usual. It’s wonderful when that happens.

What I read is often helpful. Sometimes first lines of very good writers make me want to write my own poem almost as a response to theirs. Janet Frame and Anne Carson have done that for me.

Yes, I almost always do this.

I mentioned earlier that I always have a notebook. Usually this is where I draft poems and then maybe weeks later I read back over this notebook. Some things I’ve written look a bit feeble but often there’s something I can use and develop further.

If you want to write in a particular genre it’s likely you’ll read that genre. At the same time I sometimes find that the books that really get me writing are a surprise. It’s not necessarily books of modern poetry that make me want to write poems.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rachel Bush (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.