The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.