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

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

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.

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.