When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

Maybe we're stuck with who we are.

Little children are all writers.

Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.

You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.