Sakina Ali

“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”
― Peter S. Jennison

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.”
― Nicole Peeler

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov