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

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

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.

Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

As somebody who's kind of a technophile, I'm interested in how traditional and digital publishing connect. Maybe ten years ago they were seen as antagonists, but now they complement each other. There's data that shows digital sales actually drive print sales. And even the ways in which pictures and words, text and image, interact - we're seeing these books that are very hard to categorize. All of that is very exciting to me.