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

There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

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.

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.