Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

Success is a wonderful addition to my life.

People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.

I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it.