Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by 2 oversize mice in black hoods. Words that you would like to hear are “Take me instead, I will go to the dungeon in my sons place.” There is a great deal of comfort in those words.

We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

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

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.

I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.

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