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Their eyes met from time to time. I thought about what I could tell her.

Virginia surprises herself: she wants this warmth, wants skin and breath.

I made him love me. To feel abandonment—again.

No woman he’d ever been with responded so unmistakably.

Whatever was wrong with his brain, he could still smell her skin.

You know that sex isn’t everything. It’s time to get a move on.

He was afraid he would be sucked into the world like this cousin had.

I’m a slave to the question what kind of music would ever dare leave you.

I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.

There was one lease Homer Young wanted above all others.

First a mother puts her child to sleep, then the other way around.

After her divorce she took up with a cowboy named Wicks.

All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.

He can’t remember the last time they made love. It has become a game.

the woman wiped her hands on her apron saying “lord these children”

No matter how hard I played, it was like I was performing inside a vacuum.

He spoke of the river’s origins as though telling of the birth of a god.

“It’s so unfair being accused of doing something you didn’t do.”

The talk was heady, but the conversations were dead-ends.

My first girl, only sixteen year and she go, she run away to you.

Revision is not a sanction to get the head and the will involved.

The main thing a poet tries to do, above all things, is to write a poem.

In the best fiction, there exists a palpable sense of discovery.

The best writers talk a story the way they put it down on the page.

What can be done to interest a younger audience in fiction?

We lived below the poverty level. I wasn’t allowed to desire objects.

You decide that in this city all things are possible, even happiness.

Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.

Be honest. Writing is about honesty, and articulating that honesty.