“I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devo...” — Nikki Grimes Quote

“I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.”

“Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.”

“In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.”

“In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.”

“It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.”

“Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.”

“You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.”

“For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.”

“There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.”

“Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.”

“Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.”

“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”