All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.