I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.

Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.

The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind

Never give up, the hope of living.

We all have a dual nature, some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for an Urban Goddess

Let each person decide his or her fate.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan. I try to eat fruit and be healthy. If I'm feeling a bit sickly, I usually get a good spray tan.

I think the fascinating - several different pieces of the [Donald] Trump psyche revealed by what happened today and one of them is this decision not to hold more fundraisers.

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

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