There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall

Even nothing cannot last forever.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Dreams shape the world

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.