Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

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.

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