![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his own words: "I'm very comfortable with this idea that the writer is a person who recognizes patterns and who can re-create them on a page. It's the recognition of a pattern, a structure that can effectively or beautifully suspend something about what it means to be human, that compels you as a writer to tell a story." "I believe that a large part of the urge to write comes from a desire to be part of society, to be involved in a substantial way in the fate of the people you love and are in a community with. Like anyone else, you hope people will say your life helped." As quoted in "The Book that Changed My Life", Interviews/the National Book Foundation, 2002 HOMAGE TO BARRY LOPEZRelated Links: |