My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself questions that the grownups in your life have been answering for you. Before that, you are a good kid, or you are a funny kid, because you're told that's who you are. But when it's just you and the book, you have to figure out who you are.

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?