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

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

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.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

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.

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

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