If you want to write, read!
"When I was really little I asked my dad if he had read every book in the world yet. I also asked him if he knew the answer to everything. He let me know that the best you can do is know a little about many things and know enough about those things to find out more about them if you want. He made me become a librarian!" Melanie Wood, librarian in Charlotte, NC
"Fiction is as essential as milk. I believe that in literature, in poetry, that we learn what we need to know."
Elizabeth Strout
"Put a good book into the hands of a skilled and passionate teacher and those ideas come alive in the classroom; not longer is reading simply a laborious and necessary evil...Suddenly
. reading has purpose."
Steve Wolk. (2009) Reading for a Better World: Teaching for Social Responsibility with Young Adult Literature
, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, (52:8), p. 664.
"Narrative is an 'existential necessity.' Through dialogue we 'mediate the world, in order to name the world,' and that by narrating our worlds, we transform them and thus gain significance as human beings."
G. Wesley Houp, (2009), Lana's Story:Re-Storying Literacy Education,
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (52:8), p. 701, quoting Friere, P. (1970).
Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum.
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