We wanted them to have something. We thought this would be nice and also increase reading and writing.

We came up with the (title) 'Author in the House' -- we thought it was catchy -- then wrote the grant.

This is exactly what we wanted. It is very rewarding. Who knows -- we may get a writer or an illustrator out of this.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors’ collective and collaborative minds at work.

Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing