As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.
Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.
I am here to help her learn, Tansy said, not to keep her from it.
Only the nonreader fears books.
Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.
Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds.
Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
Yes, I think you'll find that all the best teachers are old bats.
Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental.
Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.
We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be -Archer
This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.
That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes...
She had eyes in the back of her heart.
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.
I don’t think grandma’s a very good influence on us.