Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

I don't hafta take his sass

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.