Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

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.

If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

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

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.