I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.
My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.
In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.
Writing gave me the world.