An award does not change the quality of a book.

There must be something to think about at the end.

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.