I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.