Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.