I Was Always Influenced By Language.

However, I Began To Submit Poems To British Magazines, And Some Were Accepted. It Was A Great Moment To See My First Poems Published. It Felt Like Entering A Tradition.

In A World Without Air All You Breathe Is Adventure!

Reread, Rewrite, Reread, Rewrite. If It Still Doesn't Work, Throw It Away. It's A Nice Feeling, And You Don't Want To Be Cluttered With The Corpses Of Poems And Stories Which Have Everything In Them Except The Life They Need.

A Novel, In The End, Is A Container, A Shape Which You Are Trying To Pour Your Story Into.

Writing Children's Books Gives A Writer A Very Strong Sense Of Narrative Drive.