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.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.