Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

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

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

Nobody ever learns anything.