I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

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

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

Children want to do what grownups do.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.