The Failures Of Other Genres To Provide

I Was 40 Years Old Before I Became An Overnight Success, And I'd Been Publishing For 20 Years.

I Always Say That A Poet Loves The World, And The Prose Writer Needs To Create An Alternative World.

People Who Didn't Live Pre-internet Can't Grasp How Devoid Of Ideas Life In My Hometown Was. I Stopped In The Middle Of The Sat To Memorize A Poem, Because I Thought, This Is A Great Work Of Art And I'll Never See It Again.

Childhood Was Terrifying For Me. A Kid Has No Control. You’re Three Feet Tall, Flat Broke, Unemployed, And Illiterate. Terror Snaps You Awake. You Pay Keen Attention. People Can Just Pick You Up And Move You And Put You Down.

How Much Smaller The Large Places Are Once We're Grown Up, When We Have Car Keys And Credit Cards.