Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.