I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Don't blindly follow any leader.
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
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