What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

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.

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.

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.

Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.