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Educationexpand_moreNo woman he’d ever been with responded so unmistakably.
In the republic of pain, we bloom ice bags and crutches on limbs.
I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.
That is a building. That is a tree. That is a yellow car. That is a curb.
The talk was heady, but the conversations were dead-ends.
Not a single environmentalist holds out much hope for the future.
The best writers talk a story the way they put it down on the page.
What can be done to interest a younger audience in fiction?
Revision is not a sanction to get the head and the will involved.
In the best fiction, there exists a palpable sense of discovery.
The main thing a poet tries to do, above all things, is to write a poem.
Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.
Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.
Since the day the bell was cast I have sat in the bishop’s carved chair and waited my turn.
“A book is an ax,” Franz Kafka once said, “for the frozen sea within.”
His eyes, dark brown and unwavering as he delivered the details.
I felt that Teddy occupied a range below acceptability, even among boys.
Live Dangerously! If you get hurt, the suffering will bring a new being.
I know that hairs
on my head go singly gray only
by night.
What can go heartbreakingly wrong, and what would you do?
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
She was bad. A cool bad. All third-graders wanted bad like hers.
We drove, talking fast, fast, fast. He was always going for my zipper.
His eyes rested on the trees. By George, it’s like the garden of Eden.
Nothing happened to him? Why, genius had happened to him!
Their leader is a badly wounded boy in need of wounding others.
Sex can be revelatory. Essential nature emerges in sex.
If you play, decide three things: the rules, stakes, and quitting time.
I find lost prayers in the tiny edging around buttonholes.
