School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.