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

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

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.

When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come back look at underlined passages and see if the images I wrote still have a certain amount of resonance for me.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.