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

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

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

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.

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.