Handi Quotes

#1. Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

Kate Mulgrew

#2. I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

David Oyelowo

#3. My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.

Constance Wu

#4. I love being able to stay real to the world.

Kurt Sutter

#5. Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.

Karen Joy Fowler

#6. Just so. You tried to establish a fact from a lack of evidence. Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry.

Jonathan Renshaw

#7. ... at each step, it must be remembered that regeneration, the basis of all godly authority, begins with God working in the individual and extends to every facet of life

Samuel Ngewa

#8. Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.

Sharon Draper

#9. Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.

Kelly Gallagher

#10. Does fate ever play by the rules?

Jodi Picoult

#11. The tune here is an old-fashioned town-crowd melody
kind of like how the people from the town in The Music Man might sound if Harold Hill had brought an infant homosexual to town instead of wind instruments.

David Levithan