Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Blake Morrison

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet Blake Morrison.
Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Blake Morrison

Philip Blake Morrison FRSL is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If. Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too. — © Blake Morrison
Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.
At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.
The selective memory isn't selective enough.
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