Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.