There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name..

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you becau….

When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn in….

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen..

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now..

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens..

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….

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….

Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words t….

I think we sent Tony Fucile pictures of ourselves, photos from like when we were seven years old. That's what he worked from. He captured exactly wha….

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

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person..

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….

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 ….

I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories..

The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the hum….

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness..

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care..

So, yes, at least from my end. You could say there's a lot of Alison [McGhee] in Gollie too..

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to ha….

Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he….