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" If you’re working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours’ homework, it’s quite a lot on your plate. " - Anna Popplewell

" At every writers’ conference, you have the opportunity to hear from best-selling authors, top literary agents, and excellent editors who will demystify the publishing industry and give you great advice, no matter where you are in your writing career or what you’re currently struggling with. " - Tomi Adeyemi

" The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women’s education. " - Dan Shechtman

" I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now. " - Jane D. Hull

" I really love visiting schools – in fact, that’s my favorite part of being an author now – even though I still get stage fright! When I visit schools, I know I’m going to be talking to some kids who don’t like to read. " - Jay Asher

" People who lived in the 1920s and ’30s and ’40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did. " - Timothy D. Snyder

" Young writers take themselves very seriously in college. " - Kyle Kinane

" I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn’t able to succeed at those institutions. " - Sonia Sotomayor

" It’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow’s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education. " - Barack Obama

" Violence is a tool of the ignorant. " - Flip Wilson