Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.

Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

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