Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.