I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

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.

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.

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

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