There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!