Success is a wonderful addition to my life.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.

I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question.

You must begin writing your life book.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

It's not always what you know, but who you know. Get out and meet people.

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.