Nobody Can Assume That, To A Writer,

You Put A Character Out There And You're In Their Power. You're In Trouble If They're In Yours.

Clouds Are Poems, And The Most Moving Poems Linger On The Blackboard So Long, Written In Cursive So Lovely, They Also Exist Inside Our Fingertips. We Never Really Erase Them At The End Of The Lesson.

Women Are Obviously Much More Discriminated Against Than Men In Many Ways.

I Like A Lot Of Margaret Atwood, I Like Much Of Alice Munro. Again, If You Were To Ask Me About Male Writers, There's Often A Novel I Admire, But Not All Of Their Works.

There Is Some Reason, Obviously, That You Are Drawn To Your Material, But The Way In Which You Explore It Might Come To Be Quite Different From What You Would Expect.