The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.