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.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself...Maybe the bike is more dangerous...If the Internet has been called a great democratizer...Become a beacon of enhancement...There's a dark side to everything...If you change the way you tell your own story...