When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.
At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.