From Demetria Martinez's essay, "Spirit Matters":
The writer's imagination must be roomy and supple enough for hope and joy as well as gloom and doom.
Our imaginations must be on call at all times, open to any possibility. So we fight sloth and fear and struggle to show up each day, before the blank page. If a writer can be said to have a spiritual practice, this is it: to stay awake until the imagination stirs and characters come alive in our hands. My hope is that by writing well I will help keep you, the reader, awake--and in love with the human project despite the dark times in which we live.