Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

You need the art in order to love the life.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.