“I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.”
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.