I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.