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“Nobody asked you to write.” Over time, I realized it was a magic key.

Every really good book on first reading is life changing.

I like to think of love as something that one should keep feeding, like a fire.

I’ve read this novel at various stages of my life and I feel as if I know Isabel.

Love is not something you wait for passively, but a practice.

This is kind of a big, wet valentine, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you throw it out?

Favorite character? What a question. It’s like choosing a favorite child.

Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.

I’m obsessed with finding a convertible that has enough room.

I usually get my best writing done at night or at the close of day.

How does he do it? I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past decade.

Love’s not all that fun, but it saves you. And you should be saved.

The story of racism does not simply happen to people of color.

I wish I could tell her that we aren’t supposed to know why we’re here.

I’m a big fan of then. A novel needs a lot of thens.

I once heard in a sermon, “Choose the important over the urgent.”

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.

I sometimes have to laugh because even now, as a middle-aged man.

I found it impossible not to imagine a radiant future for myself.

Poets need to be
in constant touch with the extremes of feeling.

Jayne Anne Phillips

When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.

Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.

For years I thought this light was love, or God, but now I know it’s fear.

American poetry is afflicted by modesty of ambition.

Michael Wiegers

The act of poetry most often begins and ends in  solitude.