I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for 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.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

Pray how does your asparagus perform?

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.