Occupation: Writer Birth: March 25, 1964
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….
What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast ….
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness..
The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books..
Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back….
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't know how in the world he's goi….
I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terr….
The origin of each story is unique..
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light..
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to….
Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take ….
It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in….
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark..
I'm in trouble if they can't, because everyone's taller than me, and if that's true, that means I can't have any friends! Alison [McGhee] and I look ….
If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it..
There is nothing worse than war in the summetime..
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….
If I am just home and writing, I become very strange..
Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up..
Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their ki….
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had alread….