In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

I read my books aloud before they were published.