I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.