It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

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