Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're go….

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me.

If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make. It's important ….

Writers are always diverse on the inside..

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these cha….

I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and E….

I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not o….

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information..

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text..

Your Texas is no different than my Texas..

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset..

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills….

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me..

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual..