With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.
Fred D'AguiarI found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.
Fred D'AguiarI love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.
Fred D'AguiarTo close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.
Fred D'Aguiar