Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.

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.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

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 was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.