I Don't Think It's By Accident That

Good Writing Gives Energy, Whatever It Is About.

We Sometimes Received - And I Would Read - 200 Manuscripts A Week. Some Of Them Were Wonderful, Some Were Terrible; Most Were Mediocre. It Was Like The Gifts Of The Good And Bad Fairies.

There Is A Way In Which All Writing Is Connected. In A Second Language, For Example, A Workshop Can Liberate The Students' Use Of The Vocabulary They're Acquiring.

Translation Is An Interestingly Different Way To Be Involved Both With Poetry And With The Language That I've Found Myself Living In Much Of The Time. I Think The Two Feed Each Other.

With, Or Despite Our Scars, We Stay Alive.