Children want to do what grownups do.

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.

There can be no forced inspiration.

our earth is the most beautiful mother :)

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

With every case from years ago there should be lessons learned.

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?