Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

I am too nervous to eat pie.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.