My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.