Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

My mother was my greatest fan.