Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

It is good to pray even if you do not believe in God.

The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

There are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments.

Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love!

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.