Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

Snoring keeps the monsters away.

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.

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

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.