I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

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 was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!