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.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

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

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.