Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

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.

Once we were young, now we are adult.

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway.

What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.