I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.