I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.