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" It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. "

" It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "