Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
Writing is definitely something that interests me a lot.
I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
Writing is not an unknown territory for me.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.