What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives
People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.
Don't join America's collective amnesia for the suffering that seems so distant but in fact surrounds us, ... Don't forget about the forgotten people in this world.
You don't get far with people by judging them, and one of the nice things of my profession is I don't have to. It makes things a lot more fun, more interesting.
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.
My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.