I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.