The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

Snoring keeps the monsters away.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.

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've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.