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It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.