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.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.

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

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.