Fiction Is About Intimacy With Characters, Events,

Young Writers Only Take Off When They Find Their Subjects. Since Almost Everyone Has A Family And Stories About Family, That Is Often A Place To Start.

I Don't Think American Poetry Has Gotten Any Better In The Past 35 Years. Oddly Enough, Creative Writing Programs Seem To Have Been Good For Fiction, And I Would Not Have Predicted That.

I Love To Create Interesting Textures With Language. You Can Do It As Long As It Seems Like A Discovery.

Distance Not Only Gives Nostalgia, But Perspective, And Maybe Objectivity.

Our Most Famous Writers Are Faulkner And Eudora Welty And Flannery O'connor. It Would Make Sense That The Poetry Would Reflect Some Of Those Same Values, Some Of The Same Techniques.