She feels she can never truly write well because she lacks Lila's wild, prodigal spirit.
I taught children how to truly write for the first time and share meaningful connections on a cozy carpet.
"Not Going Anywhere" is well and truly written — a generosity at a time when technology makes it easy to release an album that is more wish than act.
I've learned a great deal about not only myself as a person, but also how to really, truly write from the heart".
Then suddenly, some people went a step further - when The Young Ones arrived, my friends and I thought something had been truly written for us.
"In the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured".
I knew that if I had truly written the novel for myself, I would feel content hiding it away in my desk, since the person that mattered, me, had seen the project to its end.
What's most interesting to me about the poem is its direct assessment of the act of writing poetry; Duffy is not only writing an imaginary, impossible event, she is writing about writing it, and writing about where it naturally has to stop: "If poetry could truly write it backwards, / then it would".
Had his reputation been restricted to books he'd truly written, no one would have been hoodwinked into hiring him.
