Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

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

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

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

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.