Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.

Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without her. The novel would write itself.

With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.