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.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

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

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.