Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.
Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.
I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
We writers are resilient souls.
From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life. " But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome.
We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.
There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.