My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year.

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

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

Reading is my passion.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.