To Young Writers: Run While You Still Can

Reach big, read widely, and, most of all, never give up even when that’s what the adults around you think you should do.

These remarks were delivered as the keynote address at the awards ceremony for the New York City Region of the Scholastic Writing Awards of 2004, Long Island City High School, Queens, April 27, 2004.

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