Writing Process Creative Process Quotes

The movementOf the body isWhere poetryBegins

You want to get your book to press. You rush it through. Revision number twenty—done. Do you really need twenty more? Yes. A half-baked book is a half-birthed child. It aborts, is put on life support; reviewers line the hall to pull the plug.

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.