The Tricky Thing About Being

When I Am Emperor, I Will Abolish Private Education. Private Schools, Private College. All Of These Parents With Money And Energy And The Drive For Bake Sales And A Desire To Leave Their Vast Fortunes To Education - Everybody Would Have To Be Eating Out Of The Same Educational Pot.

I Tend To Keep My Ideas In My Head. When I Write Something Down In A Notebook It's Never Centralized. There Are Too Many Notebooks Floating Around, But Maybe That's A Good Thing.

Fiction Is Always Really A Labor.

It Was All In My Head And Now All I Had To Do Was Figure Out A Way To Get It Down On Paper.

When Well Told, A Story Captured The Subtle Movement Of Change. If A Novel Was A Map Of A Country, A Story Was The Bright Silver Pin That Marked The Crossroads.