If You Can Be Anything Else But

Writing Is About Doing Something Very Close To The Bone. It's About Shocking Yourself. When I Write, I Like To Make Myself Cry, Laugh - I Like To Give Myself An Experience. I See A Lot Of Writing Out There That's Very Safe. But If You're Not Scaring Yourself, Why Would You Think That You'd Be Scaring Anybody Else? If You're Not Coming To A Revelation About Your Place In The Universe, Why Would You Think Anyone Else Would?

In Communist Countries, You Execute Your Poets. In The Free World, The Poets Execute Themselves.

All Good Writing Is Built One Good Line At A Time. You Build A Novel The Same Way You Do A Pyramid. One Word, One Stone At A Time, Underneath A Full Moon While The Fingers Bleed.

Whenever I Get Lost In A Novel I Just Throw A Poem In. What It Does Is Flare Up, And It's So Illuminated That I'm Able To See Where To Go. I Write Between These Illuminations.

Women Have Waited Millions Of Years, Growing Separate As Another Species, With Visions And Priorities No Man-words, No Man-measurements Can Comprehend.