I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.