Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.

I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives from the inside out. I write humorous poems to tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.