The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

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

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.