I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing.

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

our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch

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.

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.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.