Nothing Helps An Artist's Career More Than

Poets Are The Mad Midwives To Reality. They See Not What Is, Nor What Can Be, But What Must Become.

No Book Or Poem Is Ever Finished, Merely Abandoned.

Luckily, Even As A Young Man Not Yet Become Himself, John Bridgens Had Two Things Besides Indecision That Kept Him From Self-destruction - Books And A Sense Of Irony.

It's One Of The Strangest Attributes Of This Profession That When We Writers Get Exhausted Writing One Thing, We Relax By Writing Another.

Writing, Im Convinced, Should Be A Subversive Activity - Frowned On By The Authorities - And Not One Cooed Over And Praised Beyond Common Sense By Some Teacher.