Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

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

This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.

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

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

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.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.