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

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" The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. "

" 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've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. "

" 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. "

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

" The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. "

" You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. "

" The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003. "

" Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. "

" Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. "

" I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve. "

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

" 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. "

" Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. "

" 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. "

" They took my mother's stomach out six months ago. "

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

" You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. "

" I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. "

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

" 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 worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. "

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

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