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
I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry...If falling into desperation worked to make things...The meek shall inherit the Earth...Battle is the most magnificent competition...Being transgender, like being gay...I believe that the whole human race is the family...