Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around.

Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we…

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair--the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's …

Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. I spent the first twelve years or so of my married life assuring myself that I 'just liked to drink.' I a…

'Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their ow…

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.