So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.

We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.

On Easter, the Pope asked for peace in the Middle East. There are two groups the Pope has to contend with - Jewish people and Muslims. They couldn't wait to hear his suggestions.

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.