Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up..

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and….

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me..

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?.

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 ….

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….

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation..

I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read; I'll get it in his han….

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar..

It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of mine, and here he is, with ….

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on movi….

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just th….

During the night, while Bull and Lucy slept, Edward, with ever-open eyes, stared up at the constellations. He said their names, and then he said the ….

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it..

We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For….

I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything out but rather adding, be….

In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote that on a scrap o….

I loved school; I loved the rules, and I liked there being right answers, wrong answers, and being able to give the right answer all the time. And th….

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything….

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….

Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become..