"(My students) think when you’re a writer, especially a creative writer, that you write something and it’s perfect and you hit send and it goes out to the world. They really don’t understand what a process it is ..." ~ Jesmyn Ward
"But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it also feel this way to you?" ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." ~ Kurt Vonnegut