“You will have a story in there. . . or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.”
“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“Four things you can't recover: The stone after the throw, The word after it's said, The occasion after it's missed,The time after it's gone.”
“If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".”
“Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.”