I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

When things aren't going well, I complain a lot and get depressed. I whine and I eat and I go to sleep. I do all kinds of things. And if I'm smart, I'll go and clean out a drawer or a closet or go and pay my bills. I do get myself into situations where I'm not happy with what's going on. But you just have to wait it out and have faith that that dry well will fill up again.

I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I often just go right through the alphabet in my head when I'm looking for a rhyme.