That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.

I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.