My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like g…

- Kirby Larson

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I w…

- Kirby Larson

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

- Kirby Larson

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new fri…

- Kirby Larson

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

- Kirby Larson

The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on a note of joy (and gingerbread!) and loo…

- Kirby Larson

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

- Kirby Larson

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so …

- Kirby Larson

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

- Kirby Larson