I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.