I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write about. A journal is a great source of story starters.