Meg Wolitzer Charlotte’s Web,’ which I read sitting on my mother’s lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings. – Meg Wolitzer Books Quotes Charlottes Quotes Convey Quotes Emotional Quotes Experience Quotes Feelings Quotes Lap Quotes Leap Quotes Mothers Quotes Read Quotes Realizing Quotes Sitting Quotes Strong Quotes Untangle Quotes I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn’t know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally. I’ve always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
Joshua Cohen What do I want from a book? Something protean, something always on-the-move-or-make – shape-shifting, semantically-and-syntactically-shifting. – Joshua Cohen
Ben Shapiro America’s liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou. – Ben Shapiro
John Lee Hooker I don’t play a lot of fancy guitar. I don’t want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks. – John Lee Hooker
Sonam Wangchuk Young people in their twenties spend three-four years doing things that are behind the times. We’re capturing such people in a classroom for a lecture. We need to reground ourselves and see how evolution has taught us. – Sonam Wangchuk
Felice Picano All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support. – Felice Picano
Carol Leifer Just be your authentic self because there’s nothing sexier or more beautiful than that. – Carol Leifer
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