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 reward of suffering is experience...The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader...The world perishes not from bandits and fires...At home, I relax by catching up with friends...We turn off the TV, video games and computer...There are two insults no human being will endure...