"My books is all the wealth I do possess,
And unto them I have ingag'd my heart;
O, Learning, how divine thou seems to me!"

Cromwell ACT I. SCENE II
The Life and Death of The Lord Cromwell; Shakespeare

"Good fiction should be beautiful, and powerful, but it should also work.
It should have something in it that enlightens, something in it that opens the door and points the way."

Toni Morrison