I Have A Terrible Memory.

Why Write Stories? To Join The Conversation.

Stories Are The One Sure Way I Know To Touch The Heart And Change The World.

I Did Not Begin With Craft, I Began With Strong Feelings And Worked Toward Craft.

One Of The Strengths I Derive From My Class Background Is That I Am Accustomed To Contempt.

... Suffering Does Not Ennoble. It Destroys. To Resist Destruction, Self-hatred, Or Lifelong Hopelessness, We Have To Throw Off The Conditioning Of Being Despised, The Fear Of Becoming The They That Is Talked About So Dismissively, To Refuse Lying Myths And Easy Moralities, To See Ourselves As Human, Flawed, And Extraordinary. All Of Us Extraordinary