A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

Writers turn dreams into print.

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.