People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you..

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers..

I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's n….

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living..

Keep on doing what you're doing..

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying t….

The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated..

You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D.

I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job ….

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry..

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise..

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this inform….

In all your getting, get understanding..

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's abo….

For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we ….

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around ex….

A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy - how that was all that love was - ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize….

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this..

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to….