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Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is... →
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're... →
My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers, a freakishly big... →
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not... →
We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to... →
When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we... →
As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
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