Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

Without peanut butter, I might starve.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.