Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (ed. Shambhala Publications, 2016) - ISBN: 9780834821132