I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

The real writer is one who really writes.

A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.