I like to think of myself as a storyteller..

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy….

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme..

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is..

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don….

I love adventurous travel. I also love pancakes, and making pancakes for other people. You would definitely find me in the airy treetop as opposed to….

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I c….

The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder ….

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….

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together..

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that ….

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli….

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing..

When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the image….

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one..

Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd fini….

[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers..

I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea..

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began with a friend giving me a rabbit doll - forgive me, Edward, for using that word; he doesn't like "doll"….

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story..

Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these thi….