But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
Writing is the thing that props me up.
I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.
If I ever teach writing again, Iād say the first lesson is to listen.
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.