Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. November 26, 1943
Birthday: November 26
Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.
source: "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.
topic: Writing, Assuming, Protect You