Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get...

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get...

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all...

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all...

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house...

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house...

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you...

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you...

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to...

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to...

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that...

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that...

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And...

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And...

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political...

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political...

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest...

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest...

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They...

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They...

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the...

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the...

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than...

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than...

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing...

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing...