If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken.

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.