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.

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

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.

If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.

Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)