When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.

When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.