So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.

For a book to be a good one a reader must have a connection with the characters and identify with them and have the story hold their attention and want more

what's real within the story is real within the story

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

Nothing lasts forever but we always try, and I just can't help but wonder why we let it pass us by

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

There's really no way to duplicate how someone gets from the beginning to the end of an idea.

Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.