Occupation: Writer Birth: March 25, 1964
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..
In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that….
Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard….
Everything when I was a kid was illustrated..
Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he l….
Nobody ever learns anything..
As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens..
That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and ….
She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved..
I always wanted to be a character, when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters and I wasn't tall enough for others. I w….
I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two over….
So many miracles have not yet happened..
Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. ….
I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I dra….
He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small pu….
I have been loved said Edward to the stars.
I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern..
The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights..
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen..