I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.

There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.

The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.