Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun. The phone starts to ring, and the rest of the day is spent dealing with the business of writing. My workday is done at about 3:00.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.