You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

I'll live in another world, then.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.