My work was entirely nonfiction.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project