If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success.

People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

Success is a wonderful addition to my life.