I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.