Individual Narrative Quotes

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.