“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. ”

“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier and deeper and hones grammar, spelling, writing, comprehension, knowledge and imagination ...be it comic books or classics, fiction or non, Lord of the Rings or Lord of the Flies, let them read what they truly like...:)”

“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”

“Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.”

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”

“It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.”