RAW’s Reviews > Gates of Excellence: On Reading and Writing Books for Children > Status Update

There are days when I don’t have time to market or write or clean or even to eat lunch, but there always seems to be at least a little time to read.

Fiction allows us to do something that nothing else quite does. It allows us to enter fully into the lives of other human beings.

Words aren’t cheap. They are precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply.