Occupation: Writer Birth: March 25, 1964
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?.
Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Watson love Mercy [Watson]. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so ge….
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together ha….
This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, th….
It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself..
Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents..
SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageo….
What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them..
The Watsons have lost sight of the fact that Mercy Watson is a pig, and they love her truly, madly, deeply. They live next door to two elderly sister….
I never want to be a role model..
I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons..
I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road..
While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short..
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing..
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think abo….
I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar..
My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the prom….
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I….
I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story..
Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good st….
And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing..