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

An award does not change the quality of a book.

I have lots of ideas. The problem for me has always been which one to do.

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.

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.