Billy Marshall Quotes
Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.
The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.
What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.
The burning off and the gathering together are one.
As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.
The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?
