I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
I am a greedy artiste. Wherever I will find good stories, I will do it.
I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.
Except theatre, there is no medium which can satisfy good artistes in India.
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.
I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.
I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.
My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.
It shall be the duty of the legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them…
My family has always been inclined to any form of art.
I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
