I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he’s on the banks of levee, and he’s starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he’s so desperate, he’s seven years old, that he finds a pig that’s been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back. Susan Straight Read Quote
Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways. Susan Straight Read Quote
Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children’s lives different, if not always better. Susan Straight Read Quote
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. Susan Straight Read Quote
