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

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" I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. "

" 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. "

" The house is a factory. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise. "

" 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. "

" When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list. "

" 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. "

" I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. "

" To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen. "

" Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. "

" So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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