Ben McAdoo has a "work hard" mentality.
They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.
The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.
Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own.