I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

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.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

The trouble was, love was such a strong emotion. It made everything else unimportant. It grabbed you and imprisoned you in the moment."Deathsworn Arc 4: The Temple of the Mad God

Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

I chose Tennessee because I thought theyd give me an opportunity to play.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

So how did he look at me?" "Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.