When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.