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.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

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

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.

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work.

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

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.