I actually do like traveling..

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get brok….

I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would….

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift..

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter..

I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's par….

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, yo….

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful ….

Reading is my passion..

I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest o….

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention..

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!.

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?.

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways..

Nobody ever learns anything..

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children..

Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly, Bull had not. It was a singular s….

So many miracles have not yet happened..

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated..

Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was bea….

Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the book onto film as huma….