Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.