Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.