I should be concentrating on writing pages.

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.