Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book..

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact..

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no pr….

Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books we….

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, ju….

Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a hom….

The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the bo….

I'm against reparations. At this point, blacks should just be handing money to themselves..

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens..

[Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stole….

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for refer….

This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life - an unflinching, honest po….

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil….

One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book..

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books..

Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, ….

Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills..

They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and it's 86 pages already. Att….

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into arti….

The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of dang….

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old..