Deadline' Is The Story Of A Young

My First Book, 'running Loose', Was Censored Back In 1983 Or '84. Every Book I've Written Since Has Been Censored Somewhere.

...racist Thought And Action Says Far More About The Person They Come From Than The Person They Are Directed At.

You Can't Judge Islam By Those People Any More Than You Can Judge Christians By Abortion Clinic Bombers Or White Separatists. Love Turn To Hate At The Fringes Of Any Belief System.

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

I Don't Think I'll Ever Lose The Feeling That I Had When I Read 'to Kill A Mockingbird' - Harper Lee Was Going Back Into Her Childhood. I Grew Up In A Real Small Town - Lee's Was In The South, Mine The Northwest - But Small Towns Have A Lot In Common. There Was Such A Revelation In Knowing That A Story Could Be Told Like That.