All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

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

[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said "It doesn't matter at all now."

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.