I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.

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

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.