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

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

No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate cleanser - between larger works. It's always a relief to come back to her.

Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.