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How deep is your game?
Reading is not optional.
New York is my favorite city.
I write in a small office at home.
When I began to read, I began to exist
Think about all the tomorrows of your life.
the beast is the monster that destroys your dream
Each of us is born with a history already in place
I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch
On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again
Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.
I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.
The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.