I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about the lack of respect artists got here. In my heart, I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.