Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota..

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole..

Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I alw….

Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others..

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll).

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention..

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….

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….

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?.

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….

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….

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated..

So many miracles have not yet happened..

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

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

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 ….

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild..

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….