Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

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

Without peanut butter, I might starve.