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When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

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There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

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Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

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There are all kinds of things God wants me to do that I'm very obstreperous about.

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Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

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My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.

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As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

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Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 16th, 1955

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