As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.