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" Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity. "

" And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. "

" And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. "

" Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. "

" But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. "

" But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. "

" But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. "

" But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. "

" But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. "

" Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. "

" Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. "

" High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. "

" I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. "

" I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. "

" I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. "

" I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. "

" If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise. "

" I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. "

" I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "

" I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked. "

" I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. "

" I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. "

" I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. "

" I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. "

" I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. "

" I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. "

" I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. "

" I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. "

" I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. "

" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "

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