I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

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.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.