I Love Revision. Where Else

The Wonderful Thing About Books Is That They Allow Us To Enter Imaginatively Into Someone Else’s Life. And When We Do That, We Learn To Sympathize With Other People. But The Real Surprise Is That We Also Learn Truths About Ourselves, About Our Own Lives, That Somehow We Hadn’t Been Able To See Before.

One Thing Living In Japan Did For Me Was To Make Me Feel That What Is Left Out Of A Work Of Art Is As Important As, If Not More Important Than, What Is Put In.

Teachers Have Almost Stopped Reading Aloud To Their Classes Because Of The Pressure Of Testing And Tight Curricula, But It Is The Books We Read Together And Talk About Together That Bring Us Closer Together.

As Much Pleasure As Young People Get From Twittering And Texting, There Is No Way These Activities Will Nourish Their Minds And Spirits The Way Literature Can.

The Name We Give To Something Shapes Our Attitude Toward It.