Naomi Shihab Nye

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.