I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
“If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.”
“And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.”