I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Innumerable victories are silently celebrated each day by those who maintain their courage.

Look for a miracle in every encounter.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

All isms end in fascism.

Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.