It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one student walks away thinking, "She's obviously just an ordinary person, yet she gets to make her living doing what she wants to do. Maybe that applies to me, too," then I feel like my time has been well spent.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

You are the ever-expanding universe to me

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.