The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.