"Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It ha..."
- E.L. Konigsburg
"It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier."
"I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everythin..."
"But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction..."
"I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes s..."
"He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do."
"The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respe..."
"Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver."
"Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts."
"Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find."