In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

History is nothing new.

Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

People are more interested in ideas than dress.