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

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.

I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

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