Friends with whom I grew up or who know the story of how I was almost thrown into a special education classroom in the second grade often marvel that I’ve built a life with words. They shake their heads and say, “It’s a miracle you’re a writer.”
People often ask me which is my favorite out of all the books I’ve written, and I always reply that books are like children–you love them all equally but differently. Why didn’t they use some? Maybe those singers that they used in that thing we’re well known but I had heard of one of them I think out of the three or four that they used.