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

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

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.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.