Jane Yolen
Read something of interest every day — something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
More quotes and aphorisms
Never wound a snake; kill it...Age is a case of mind over matter...Now tell me...The purest and most thoughtful minds...Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where...If you smile when no one else is around...