I read whatever the publisher sends me.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

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

In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.

There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux.