Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

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

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

As writers we need to crack open language.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)