There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.

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.

I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.

You are the ever-expanding universe to me

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

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