Better off Quote by Ernest Hemingway

If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It's so clearly waiting for someone to come along.

— Paul Graham

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school…

— William Bennett

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and…

— Chris Crutcher

Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.

— John Waters

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

— Sloane Crosley

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same…

— Mark Haddon

Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading

— Stephen D. Krashen

Schools are more than just places where students learn how to read and write - they're communities. They're like second families to our students.

— Miguel Cardona

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

— Joshua Ferris

I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't about justice…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

— Robert Munsch

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic…

— Richard Russo