Some of you write novels like you’re filing taxes. Please sit down. by Virginia Woolf

Poets are just novelists with the decency to stop before everyone gets lost.

This is why the public prefers poets. Less furniture, more sense.

Yes, and I admire the courage it takes to punish readers that efficiently.

Says the woman who turns a breakfast table into a weather system.

And yet somehow it has more life than your footnotes, Thomas.

Both of you are adorable, but I made a whole book out of one Tuesday.