I Don't Know Of A Greater Privilege

I Want The Younger Writer To Know That She Or He Is Meaningful, That What They Have To Say Is Powerful In This World. But They Can't Come Indoors, They Can't Close The Curtains, They Can't, Like, Lock Themselves Away From The World And Say Nothing.

...it Was Necessary To Love Silence, But Before You Could Love Silence You Had To Have Noise.

Pain's Nothing. Pain's What You Give, Not What You Get.

If You Have A Structure Beforehand, You're Sort Of Stuffing Your Story Into A Pre-assembled Box. You Don't Want That To Happen. What You Want In Your Writing Is To Have A Sort Of Wildness That Occurs. And Then, Out Of The Wildness, A Structure Emerges.

So Much Of Her Time Spent Like This: Dreaming Up Things To Say And Never Quite Saying Them.