If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

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.

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.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

I get to meet writers, and I love writers.