online-interview

Everyone__ talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don__ think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain.If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that__ what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren__ going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you with your own language.

I believe you have to write every day__ake the time. It__ about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You__e doing the work and running your own business as well. It__ an incredibly organized state.[Also reading]_one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.