Teacher Crumpton

Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom —poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality.    —Ursula K. Le Guin

We welcome the Other as a guest within ourselves, and sometimes we become Other. For a moment in time we leave ourselves; and when we return, sometimes expanded and strengthened, we are changed both intellectually and emotionally.    —Maryanne Wolf

Fiction is the place of hypothesis, of the risked imaginary. In this one little space, perhaps it might be possible to imagine yourself out of your flesh cage. In this arena, you might be allowed to wander abroad a little bit... not stay in your lane.  — Zadie Smith