You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.