Nobody Does Anything For One Reason.

Lists Of Books We Reread And Books We Can't Finish Tell More About Us Than About The Relative Worth Of The Books Themselves.

And There Are People Who Want To Be Writers Because They Love To Write. And They Care.

We Know That People We Love Are Both Good And Bad, But We Expect Strangers To Be One Or The Other.

For Almost Anyone Who Chooses To Be A Writer, Since So Very Few Writers Are Able To Learn A Living From Their Work That Is Equivalent To The Living Earned By The Average Dentist Or Accountant.

I Much Prefer Working With Kids Whose Life Could Be Completely Upended By A Reading Of A Book Over A Weekend. You Give Them A Book To Read - They Go Home And Come Back A Changed Person. And That Is So Much More Interesting And Exciting.