Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.