6 quotes
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)