David McFadden

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored.”

“To be a poet is to be a human being.”

“There's a great deal of poetry in the world, if you just know how to look for it.”

“The world is an interesting place, but it's not half as interesting as my head.”

“I write to find out what I'm thinking.”

“I'm just trying to pay attention to the world and report back.”

“My poems are not for people who are in a hurry.”

“Every poem is a love poem.”

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

“The universe is a story we tell ourselves.”

“There’s poetry in the ordinary, if you’re willing to look for it.”

“My heart is a camera, my brain a darkroom.”