The Only Magic We Have

It Has Seemed To Me That Literature, As I Meant It, Was Embattled, That It Was Increasingly Difficult To Find Writing Doing What I Thought Literature Should Do - Which Was Simply To Push People Into Changing Their Ideas About The World, And To Go Further, To Encourage Us In The Work Of Changing The World, To Making It More Just And More Truly Human.

I Wanted Her To To Go On Talking And Understand Without Me Saying Anything. I Wanted Her To Love Me Enough To Leave Him, To Pack Us Up And Take Us Away From Him, To Kill Him If Need Be. (107)

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

Women Lose Their Lives Not Knowing They Can Do Something Different. Men Eat Themselves Up Believing They Have To Be The Thing They Have Been Made. Children Go Crazy. Really, Even Children Go Crazy, Believing The Shape Of The Life They Must Live Is As Small And Mean And Broken As They Are Told.

People Begin To Write In Order To Create What They Have Not Found And, A Little Bit, To Give Something Back.