A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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"I can safely say I've seen the US from the bottom up...I may be a success story as an individual. But if you adjust the knob and just take it back one setting to the family unit, I would say my family tells a much more complicated story. It tells the story of two kids in prison. It tells the story of enormous poverty, of tremendous difficulty."