February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down..

The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow m….

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility..

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened..

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining..

What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce..

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly l….

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August..

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life..

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have t….

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me..

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength..

This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - o….

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way liter….

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do..

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant th….

I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. A….

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer..

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up..

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think ….

The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is….