I never want to be a role model.

Reading is my passion.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.

The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

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

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.