Russell Hoban created a tremendous marriage of characters and philosophy. The plots, the wind-up toy characters, the settings, they all work together…

- David Small

You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of lazi…

- David Small

I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So I think there's a lot of…

- David Small

If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not going to force that. I'll just take a mental vacation. I thin…

- David Small

I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it would be better to turn all that stuff into drea…

- David Small

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes…

- David Small

What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and not exclude the parents from the experienc…

- David Small

I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love film, but I keep going back to just five o…

- David Small

Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt to try, I…

- David Small