You Can Talk Good Ideas Out Of

For A Writer, Obsession Is A Good Substitute For Self-discipline.

You Have To Learn A Few Things, Which You Do Along The Way, But Basically, Poetry Is A Matter Of The Ear. Iambic Pentameters Or What Constitutes A Stanza Comes Naturally - Your Ears Will Know.

Behind Every Door On Every Ordinary Street, In Every Hut In Every Ordinary Village In This Middling Planet Of A Trivial Star, Such Riches Are To Be Found. The Strange Journeys We Undertake On Our Earthly Pilgrimage, The Joy And Suffering We Taste Or Confer, The Chance Events That Leave Us Together Or Apart, What A Complex Trace They Leave: So Personal As To Be Almost Incommunicable, So Fugitive As To Be Almost Irrecoverable.

I Often Feel Newspapers Are Just Filling Up Space. Of Course, I Also Know People Who Write Really Long Books.

I Tend To Follow A Scattershot Approach To Reading A Lot Of Very Diverse Subjects Interest Me, And I'm Quite Happy To Read Stuff On Any Of Them.