You Can't Keep The Birds Of Sadness

I Am Drawn To The Ways In Which We Are Shaped By People And By Place.

I Entered A Poem In A Poetry Contest Around 1987, And The Poem Won And I Received $1,000 For It. That Made Me Realize That Maybe What I Was Writing Was Worth Reading To People. After That, For Some Reason, I Turned To Novels And I've Written Mainly Novels Ever Since.

I Started Thinking About Life Insurance And How Nice It Would Be If You Could Get Insurance That Your Life Would Be Happy, And That Everyone You Knew Could Be Happy, And They Could All Do What They Really Wanted To Do, And They Could All Find The People They Wanted To Find.

Man Needs Bread And Hyacinths: One To Feed The Body, And One To Feed The Soul.

I Don't Want To Because Boys Don't Write Poetry. Girls Do.