What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

When you're older you want to learn from other people.