I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

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

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

Children want to do what grownups do.

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.