When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.