I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.