“Books and reading were integral parts of my life growing up and it’s that same love of books I’ve been able to share with my children. The real, urgent need to connect with children by age nine and turn them onto reading with a good book is underestimated. That’s why it’s so crucial to support […]
One cloudy afternoon, you are walking through the park when you see someone leave a brown leather suitcase on a nearby bench. You walk up to the bench to see what is inside the suitcase. Write about what you find inside the suitcase and what you do with it.
“To be a writer is to sit down at one’s desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone—just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a […]
“I’m sometimes held up as an example of someone who’s changing the publishing paradigm or whatever because I have a lot of Tumblr followers and YouTube subscribers and I can speak directly to my audience and I don’t need the value-sucking middlemen of bookstores and publishers. And in the future everyone is going to be […]
“I don’t think that anything actually matches the experience of actually going into a good independent bookshop.” —Neil Gaiman in a Salon interview titled “I’m Obviously Pissed at Amazon”
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