I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

Writers are always diverse on the inside.