If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color