A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

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

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table 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A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.