However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

We are creatures of story.

Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.