Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

Art's too long and life's too short.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.