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.

Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

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.

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

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

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.