Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

What was going on inside of me became louder because everything around me became quieter.

If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.