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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting.

Great achievement requires personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.

We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.

People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

Maybe something is wrong with me but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The more we know about each other the safer we all are.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.