I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

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.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.