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

I read my books aloud before they were published.

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

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 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.

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

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.