I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and reads something she has a question about, if she can go to her parents, great. Or else they will read right over it. It won't mean a thing. They are very good, I think, at monitoring what makes them feel uncomfortable. If something makes them feel uncomfortable they will put it down.

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

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

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.