I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.