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
The object of war is not to die for your country...When you judge another, you do not define them...A wounded deer leaps the highest...Profits might also increase, because improvements...Let us never know what old age is...A friend is someone who gives you total freedom...