From Richard Howard, “I’ll have to go back a ways in order to respond. In teaching the works of Marianne Moore, of George Santayana, and of Henry James, I run into this question. These three people, apparently, had very little erotic connection with any other human being, as far as we know.”
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From Mary Lee Settle, “I demand irony from my reader. You know more than the people in the books know.”
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From Alice Hoffman, “[Teenagers] haven’t shut down the way we do as adults, and so I’m more willing to go to the deepest places when I write for them.”
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From Thomas Lux, “I think the only freedom I need (that all of us need) is time.”
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From Ann Hood “We read to understand the unknown; we should write for the same reasons.”
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