A Book Begins As A Private Excitement

There Is No Longer Any Such Thing As Fiction Or Nonfiction; There's Only Narrative.

Planning To Write Is Not Writing. Outlining, Researching, Talking To People About What You're Doing - None Of That Is Writing. Writing Is Writing. Writing Is Like Driving At Night In The Fog. You Can Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make The Whole Trip That Way.

And So The Ordinary Unendurable Torments We All Experienced Were Indeed Exceptional In The Way They Were Absorbed In Each Heart.

I Did Have A Feeling Then That The Culture Of Factuality Was So Dominating That Storytelling Had Lost All Its Authority.

The Poem Is A Cry Of The Unborn Heart. Yes, Because The Poem Perfectly Embodies The World, There Is No World Without Poem.