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

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.

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

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

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.

Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Think it over, think it under.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!

To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.

I'd like to own Intel... I'd like to own Microsoft... I'd love to have Warner Bros in my hip pocket.