Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.
