24 All-Star Readers on the Words That Rock Their Worlds
Sting
"The Thought-Fox," by
Ted Hughes, deals with the creative process itself. The writer, alone at his desk at night, hears "the clock's loneliness" and then says, "Through the window I see no star." How many of us have faced a blank page on a night like this? Searching the skies vainly for inspiration?
From the
April 2011 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
