I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.