Reading Aloud Means No Skipping, No Skimming,

Anyone Who Doubts That Caffeine Is A Drug Should Read Some Of The Prose Composed Under Its Influence.

The Action Most Worth Watching Is Not At The Center Of Things, But Where Edges Meet.

Something Amazing Happens When The Rest Of The World Is Sleeping. I Am Glued To My Chair. I Forget That I Ever Wanted To Do Anything But Write. The Crowded City, The Crowded Apartment, And The Crowded Calendar Suddenly Seem Spacious. Three Or Four Hours Pass In A Moment; I Have No Idea What Time It Is, Because I Never Check The Clock. If I Chose To Listen, I Could Hear The Swish Of Taxis Bound For Downtown Bars Or The Soft Saxophone Riffs That Drift From A Neighbor's Window, But Nothing Gets Through. I Am Suspended In A Sensory Deprivation Tank, And The Very Lack Of Sensation Is Delicious.

If You Truly Love A Book, You Should Sleep With It, Write In It, Read Aloud From It, And Fill Its Pages With Muffin Crumbs.

For Me, Literature Is A Way Of Enlarging Myself By Learning About People Who Are Not Like Me.