No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.
I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.
I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.
The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!
Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.
The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.
I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.
I still get weirded out when people recognise me.
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
I have my detractors, no doubt about it. I look at it as a compliment.
I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.
