Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

I'm still writing in my old age. And still loving it. It fills my days. Writing is my salvation. I just get up in the morning, and I'm in this world that I scratch out and begin again and write over - and then suddenly it's lunchtime, and I'm back.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.