“Change me, drastically if possible. Transform me. Make me other. That’s what I ask of books—both when I read them and when I write them.”
—Cristina Rivera Garza
“I’d like to model the point of view that literature matters to our public life. And that reading, deep reading, is an important part of being an informed human being in a society.”
—Ayad Akhtar
“What writing does for me is allow me to ask the kind of question that matters to me and there is something so joyful and meaningful in the asking of a question.”
—Megha Majumdar
“What is writing but listening for what you’ve never heard before?”