I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.