She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

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.

Staying in an abusive relationship for the fear of public judgment is like allowing to be buried alive to impress a coffin maker

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money and that is to enjoy earning it.

People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".