I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software..

For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and also the compulsions ….

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it..

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends..

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people ….

My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interes….

I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes conflict. Regarding how the quotidian ma….

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature..

I'm unshockable, fortunately -- or unfortunately..

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometime….

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's..

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a pe….

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art..

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself..

Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style that I recognize in my early work, bu….

I love to write. It's my first love..

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you ….

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

I'm like a junkie for writing..

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change..