DINTY MOORE: They come from everywhere-- the list you gave, the-- certainly I read a lot of magazines. Well, now I read a lot of things on the internet. But there are magazines and websites.
My ideas are the questions that I can't answer, the things that sort of-- if I know what I feel about something, like politics-- well, I'm against this, I'm for that-- I'm not going to write about that, because I already know how I feel. It's the questions, whether they're religious, spiritual, about human nature, about why people act the way they act that I find myself sitting awake at night, thinking, that doesn't make sense! What is that? That's the idea that I kind of believe the unanswered question is what gives a piece of writing-- poetry, fiction, nonfiction-- its energy.
So I'm a writer who-- I've written about Buddhism. I've written about the internet. I've written about my own life. I've written about-- I'm printing a lot of different things, but I don't stick with one topic. So it's always something that I'm fascinated by in the moment and usually fascinated by because I'm trying to make sense of it.