My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year..

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….

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together..

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervad….

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….

The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and what form they're going to ….

I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make yo….

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you..

You are the ever-expanding universe to me.

I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess….

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter..

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I c….

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away..

I love adventurous travel. I also love pancakes, and making pancakes for other people. You would definitely find me in the airy treetop as opposed to….

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted..

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention..

Reading is my passion..

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

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….

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