I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
“Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.”
“I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.”