Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a respon….

My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy ….

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word..

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else..

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading L….

The less inhibited you are the better..

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the s….

From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on….

The blues is life itself..

Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. ….

Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people….

I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

Elementary and high school students will still be tested under the new law. There just won't be so much riding on the scores. Also the arts didn't di….

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represe….

It's great to be back on terra cotta.

I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think abo….

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings in the world. I remember readin….

To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook ….