It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.

If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis. We were laughing within a minute of meeting - always a good sign.

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.