What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.