There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

The world is crammed with messages. We’ll never have time to read them all.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

I have what takes to get the job done.

I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world

...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.