The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. – Laura Marling
Im not religious, Im not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision. – Laura Marling
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that. – Laura Marling
I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword – Im loyal to one particular paper, the Guardian – and thats my idea of a perfect morning. – Laura Marling
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything Ive learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novels length, satisfies the reader. – Ron Rash