Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

I am not simply teaching the reading I am teaching the reader.

What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.

Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.