When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.

Tell Me what you want, and I'll Show you how to get it.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.