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

If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.

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

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.