It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.