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.

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.

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 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.

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