You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

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.

Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the book onto film as humanly possible. I think he did a fabulous job. And also I'm thrilled because the movie brings people to the book - people that wouldn't know about the book - and that's a great thing.