Occupation: Author Birth: October 31, 1932
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment..
What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much le….
Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond yo….
On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns….
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it..
Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my tur….
Shh" he said. "Look." "Where?" "Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you." "Me?" "Shh, yes. There's a rum….
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied..
When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird ….
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'.
Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not..
As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say..
We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respe….
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life..
A library is a feast to which we are all invited..
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are man….
When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget. [...] So I realize, th….
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life..
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is….
You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful..
My writing comes from ideas that make a sound in my heart..