All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
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.
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
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.
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
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.
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
Don't blindly follow any leader.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
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