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.

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

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

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

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.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.