I never met a word I didn't love

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself