Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
Dorianne LauxEvery poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that wonโt.
Dorianne LauxI write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise. I write to hear myself breathing. I write to be doing something while I wait to be called to my appointment with death. I write to be done writing. I write because writing is fun.
Dorianne Laux