The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.