Beiläufig / Casual Erfahrung / Experience Heftig / Intense Hilft / Helps Poesie / Poetry Rahmen / Frame Schreiben / Writing Start Verarbeiten / Process Verstand / Mind
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
