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

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

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.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

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

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.