She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible
The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
Not all speed is movement.
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.