Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.