I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

Write about what makes you different.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.