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

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.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

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

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

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.

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