“Maybe we were the Diggers of literature.”
“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.”
“Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger”
“Glad to eat ya', I mean meet ya'" - Digger”
“We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.”
“Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”