Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.

...because you are young and you live in a confusing world of gray shades where compromises are easy and often."Keep you heart right.

Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.

She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity.

I definitely don't get recognized so I don't have to deal with that.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

The beauty's in the scars.