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"It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, i..."

"Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes."

"If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?"

"I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to w..."

"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]"

"To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality"

"Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The gre..."

"it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy."

"Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about."

"Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success."