People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.

Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.