I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.

I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.