A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

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.

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

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

I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes I can.

Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?

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.