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I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Reading is important.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.