What Sustains Me Is To

I Write Because Something Inner And Unconscious Forces Me To. That Is The First Compulsion. The Second Is One Of Ethical And Moral Duty. I Feel Responsible To Tell Stories That Inspire Readers To Consider More Deeply Who They Are.

Writers Shouldn’t Underestimate The Difficulty Of What They’re Doing, And They Should Treat It With Great Seriousness. You’re Doing Something That Really Matters, You’re Telling Stories That Have An Impact On Other People And On The Culture. You Should Tell The Best Stories You Can Possibly Tell And Put Everything You’ve Got Into It.

I Have Relaxed Into My Persona As An Author, Although I Used To Fight That.

We Should Recognize That Schools Will Never Solve The Bedrock Problems Of Education Because The Problems Are Problems Of Families, Of Cultural Pressures That The Schools Reflect And Thus Cannot Really Remedy.

I Was Born In Washington State And Have Lived Here For 42 Plus Years.