Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

When I began to read, I began to exist

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.