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As A Young Man, I Saw Families Prosper Without Reading Because There Were Always Sufficient Opportunities For Willing Workers Who Could Follow Simple Instructions. This Is No Longer The Case. Children Who Don't Read Are, In The Main, Destined For Lesser Lives. I Feel A Deep Sense Of Responsibility To Change This.

I Keep Threatening To Keep A Formal Journal, But Whenever I Start One It Instantly Becomes An Exercise In Self-consciousness. Instead Of A Journal I Manage To Have Dozens Of Notebooks With Bits And Pieces Of Stories, Poems, And Notes. Almost Every Thing I Do Has Its Beginning In A Notebook Of Some Sort, Usually Written On A Bus Or Train.

America Believes What's Good For Us Is Good For The World. It's Very Difficult To Understand That That's Not Necessarily True.

With My Writing, What I Want To Do Is Humanize The Young People I Write About.

I Know What Falling Off The Cliff Means. I Know From Being Considered A Very Bright Kid To Being Considered Like A Moron And Dropping Out Of School.