There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

If you waste water, you die.

I think community is a shared history, it's a shared experience. It's not always agreement. In fact, I think that often it isn't. It's the commitment, again, to stay with something - to go the duration. You can't walk away. It's like a marriage, only I think it's more difficult to divorce yourself from community than it is to a human being because the strands are interconnected and so various.

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

I really do believe if there is hope in the world, then it is to be found within our own communities with our own neighbors, and within our own homes and families.

Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure.

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.