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

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.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

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

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?