Robert Bensen

I enjoy rooms full of bright faces of all ages.

I enjoy rooms full of bright faces of all ages.

I realized that when you focus on one person, when you narrow the lens, it deepens the story.

I love all kinds of writing and forms—it's a chance to play, contort yourself into a particular kind of pattern and figure out how to write within that constraint.

The common thread through everything I've done is that I always wanted to make something beautiful.

Our senses of sight and sound, imagination and inspiration, that's the center.

I'm a firm believer that brutality and beauty and/or sorrow and joy are sisters.

I was always drawn to the sound of poetry.

I think the best way to characterize my scientific interests is to say that they encompass the whole subject of how a planet works, especially a planet with life on it

I refer to myself as an everyday mystic. I have experienced the intersection of Time and Timeless. The world for me is dualistic. As a result, I see things in wholes rather than parts.

The wide range of genres represented by Lucid House reflects my curiosity and taste.

ARTWIFE works because we're wives to each other, of course, but also because we like the idea it evokes of being wedded to artwork and orienting one's life toward art and beauty.

All the literary criticIsm I learned helped me to become a good editor...