to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.