Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond yo….

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in….

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed..

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid..

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove ….

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire..

Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path..

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story..

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness..

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it..

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim ….

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to ….

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life..

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is….

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul..

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given..

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand o….

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns….

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can….

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations..

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading..