Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

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

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.

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.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.