I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'