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" A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

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" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "

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" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "

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" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "

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" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "

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" To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. "

To Be Or Not To Be

" There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. "

" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "

" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "

" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "

" I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. "

" The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' "

" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "

" We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. "

" Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. "