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.
7 min readDec 6, 2019
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.