“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”
“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.”
“Read everything you can get your hands on.”
“I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.”
“...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...”