I always want to write something better than the last book.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life