Anthony Atala Quotes

I heard the voice of God saying, `You have read your last book,`

I get used to it, ... One of the things I find is that schools and school boards get antsy about whether to have me there.

The truth that comes out from those people`s lives is skimmed off and thrown into my characters` lives,

When a teacher looks out over his or her classroom, he/she is looking at one in three girls who have been sexually mistreated, one in five boys.

What happens is everybody thinks the danger is you`re going to read this stuff and all of a sudden you`ll start acting that way,

It`s the scene in the book that probably gets the most attention, ... The biggest problem is that she is yelling, and in the book it`s in big font. This is what happens all the time: They read the language and don`t read the context. It`s meant to let you know how awful her life is.

I realized that I wanted to be a writer and I had characters and topics all around me to write about,

Since I didn`t read a lot, it left me without rules when I was writing.

(The Michigan district) used it as an all-school reader, ... Sophomores, juniors and seniors were reading it and discussing it and discussing it in different disciplines, and I was getting some amazing e-mails back from kids and teachers.

With all the kids that I have worked with throughout the years, I couldn`t find one that wasn`t like me in a way.