I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
I don`t want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I`d become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
First of all it`s usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.