There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books we publish and less interested in the profit margin.

I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.

I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing, so I just have to keep going.

The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

This is about safety. This has nothing to do with religion.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.