It Is Not Sex That

Suppose That A Person Writes What She Must. That Is Only The First Step Of Becoming A Writer. The Work Must Survive The Moment Of Creation. It Must Get Out To An Audience. She Or He Must Dare To Show The Work. She Must Risk Ridicule, Misunderstanding, Scandal, Condemnation, & What's Often Worse, None Of The Above: Silence. No Attention At All.

There Is No Justice We Don't Make Daily Like Bread And Love.

The Art Of Fiction Is One Of Constant Seduction. You Must Persuade The Reader On Page 1 To Start Reading - On Page 50, Or Page 150 And Yes, On Page 850.

Hope Sleeps In Our Bones Like A Bear Waiting For Spring To Rise And Walk.

With My Poems, I Finally Won Even My Mother. The Longest Wooing Of My Life.