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

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

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