I Claimed Myself And Remade

I Tell My Students You Have An Absolute Right To Write About People You Know And Love. You Do. But The Kicker Is You Have A Responsibility To Make The Characters Large Enough That You Will Not Have Sinned Against Them.

Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure, And One Of Them Is The Way You Can Both Hate And Love Something You Are Not Sure You Understand.

Every Kid I Meet Who's A Reader Has Got Something Like That, Their Fantasy World. And Science Fiction Is The Best, Especially For Girls Because It's The One Place Where You Can Do The Forbidden.

Teenagers Are Free Verse Walking Around On Two Legs.

Things Come Apart So Easily When They Have Been Held Together With Lies.