Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

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

Children want to do what grownups do.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

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

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.