Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.