The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.