“There's so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.” KnowsKindBookDifferentForgetKnow HowRightsComputerEntertainmentAgentsThese DaysDifferent KindsBetter Than YouWade Author:Ann M. Martin
“I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingTryingChildrenLittlesReadingGivenPleasureAdultsGreatest Pleasures Author:Ann M. Martin
“It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.” KnowsWorldWellsLooksKindPersonsMatterMomentsSeemsMightHappensEvilEverydayCalmRationalTerrifiedPredictableOther WorldsCollide Author:Ann M. Martin
“Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsLittlesUniverseWalksStreetsPlanetsCornersAliensGrantsAdamAlienationBicycleVisiting Book:Scholastic Newbery Collection Source: Scholastic Newbery Collection
