Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.