My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."

[Courage] always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, when you tell me what it is that I'm supposed to do, please give me the courage to do it."

I have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like.