Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

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

Shh" he said. "Look." "Where?" "Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you." "Me?" "Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.