Quotes from Alexi Zentner

If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it was sort of in the middle of me falling deeply in love with literature, and I took a Shakespeare course with a professor who couldn't imagine anything more important than Shakespeare.

If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.