“I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.” HumansMaySufferingDifficultSoundAnimalDealsOddHuman SufferingAnimal Suffering Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.” PeopleWritingEnoughFiguresReaderIdealsLaborIntelligentLazy Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.” IfsShouldWritingBehindsStudents Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.” HumansHelpingSufferingLanguageCommunicationEtcConsolationHuman SufferingLanguages Communication Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.” TryingHomeCertainForcePerfectWrittenPeriodsCollections Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.” BookDifferentSometimesVersionsMagazinesPublish Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“Social media is the basis of my career. Since I was a kid I've always used the Internet as a space to express myself creatively.” KidsUsedSocialSpaceCareersMediaInternetBasesSocial Media Author:Kesh
“I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.” AsksPayEditorsColleagues Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“Whatever social network that comes along, whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, whatever it is, I'll use it in a creative sense to push the vision and explore the possibilities of the relationship between humans and technology.” HumansUseSocialVisionTechnologyCreativePossibilityInstagramSocial NetworkSnapchat Author:Kesh