We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Darkness bound them closer than light.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.