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 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.

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.

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

In union there is strength.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

The pawn is the soul of chess.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

The engineers of the future will be poets.