The reading is important, certainly, in helping the child, but the relationship has taken on a dimension that I didn't know it would.

I like to learn about creatures and I know a lot about the states.

If I can just help one child get through, that would be enough for me.

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.