I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the real world and the reflectio…

- Douglas A. Martin

If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader remind yourself: …

- Douglas A. Martin

William Faulkner was the master of what one must do to be serious. But I don't understand why people haven't moved forward from that, why that's not …

- Douglas A. Martin

As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of "You're just a narcissist," "You're …

- Douglas A. Martin

I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They are my form of enter…

- Douglas A. Martin

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been writ…

- Douglas A. Martin

I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense to me. I think of myself as someone who makes…

- Douglas A. Martin

I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my ow…

- Douglas A. Martin