Helen Frost Quotes

• Finding a title for a book is something that I work really hard at ... So, in Salt, I realized that the book was a lot about how people live on the earth together and who has access to the resources of the earth. So salt was a very specific thing that people needed, but it's also symbolic because of the way it comes out of the earth.

  Helen Frost

  Book, People, Together

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most precisely. And this has to do with poetry too, to me, that poetry helps me focus on the details of language.

  Helen Frost

  Thinking, Focus, Helping

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If I have some extra words and I'm trying to make it fit into that shape, then I just sort of take out the extra words, almost like a sculptor would take a piece of granite. It's almost like cutting out the words that aren't needed in order to make it a stronger poem and still say exactly what I want it to say.

  Helen Frost

  Cutting, Trying, Stronger

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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