As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

A man.A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.

Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.

Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.

She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd.

A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm.

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

I live in heels. Give me a pair of flip-flops and I'll trip all over myself.

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

The Democratic Party has always been a party that is not known for its unanimity.

This does not --ing slip now.