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

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.

Success is a wonderful addition to my life.

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.

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

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.