You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

When we are in a situation where Jesus is all we have, we soon discover He is all we really need.

The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages

We are all bastards but God loves us anyway.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.