“But, as with all great poetry, there is pleasure in reading Oliver on one’s own. Her work…”

“Making a life as a writer in New York is never as seamless as it appears on television,…”

“Writing is 98% hell, 1% finding the word you wanted without using a thesaurus at all, and…”

“Sometimes you write for 10 hours and never come up with a single thing you like, and then…”