Annette Lemieux
"If I couldn't do my work, it would be as if someone took the air out of me. It was a necessity to survive. So it would have been that or die. I didn't have a choice. So I just worked my ass off."
Darin Strauss
"The difference between a con man and a writer is that a writer thinks up these elaborate stories and puts them on the page but a con man has the guts to see if they really work."
Life on Earth Deserves to be Lived in Vegas
I was sinning in the shower this morning, thinking about the six Tony nominations this past season for Arthur Miller's revival of The Crucible on Broadway. What is there about America that craves witch-hunts? Damned if I know. And I was wishing I was in Las Vegas, "the city that has re-discovered Sin," according to …
The Lost & Found: A Poem
The Lost Boys removed
from the coffin's lip like
tea cups stuck to a saucer
Alain de Botton
"My books superficially are okay and any problems that exist are so large that most editors don't either have the time or language or critical intelligence to tell me what they are."
Ethan Hawke
"The great joy of acting is the collaboration. I get so much of that, I feel really drawn to the isolation and solitude of writing. It's a real joy for me."
Ann Packer
"My take is more that everybody has very interesting experiences just from being human and having survived childhood. There is a story in every apparently mundane life."
Richard Russo on The Whore’s Child
"I think the Pulitzer often goes to writers who are writing about America in some larger way than in writing about particular Americans. And Empire Falls was some sort of snapshot of some part of America."
The FBI Chaplain Stops By: A Poem
With folded hands but answerless.
Mark Costello
"Anything that stops and tries to make us feel human as opposed to making us feel like consumers or productive units, I think that's important."