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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

" Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The house is a factory. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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