“In the final analysis, it is not critics who create literary canons, it is other writers who create them .... A writer can have published thirty-seven volumes, but if that writer doesn't interest other writers, they will all molder in the library and nobody will ever want to read them again.”

“One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.”

“If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?”

“A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.”

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

“Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.”

“What is a writer?A writer is a magician who can create a masterpiece With a wave of a pencilA writer has the key to a new worldCapturing readers and taking them on a roller coaster ride away from realityBut a writer can be a commanding tyrantOr a hypnotist stealing mindsWhat is a writer?A writer is a powerful being, an intelligent thinkerAnd an artist creating mind pictures through words.A writer is a keeper of secretsOr like a roomful of words waiting for a bookBut a writer is also a puppet master taking controlWith no strings attachedWhat is a writer?A writer is a true friendUsing words to spread smiles to the worldA writer is…..The voice of the hear”