This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.

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

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.