“Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.”

“Reading is not optional.”

“Were suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they dont read but, actually, were condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their m...”

“All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.”

“Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.”

“Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”