All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

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.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

I also learn a lot about everybody else's process. People create in different ways, so that has opened me up to different processes and experimenting. Laurie Keller is a character person, so she came to the project with these blades-of-grass characters that we were able to literally grow a story around.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.