When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
From Erica Jong
I remember everything but forgive anyway.
My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
I've never been able to control my public image.
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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