If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

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

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

I read.. because one life is not enough

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.