The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

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

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

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

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.