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“Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long way toward broadening the perspective. Our role is to work together to create books that act as wide-open doors - books that allow all children to walk through and feel safe enough to stay.”
Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.”
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“I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.”
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“There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.”
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“But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.”
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“Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.”
Source : "The Hot Seat: Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan". Interview with Amy Plitt, www.timeout.com. July 15 2012. 
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“The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.”
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“Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.”
