If there’s one thing I can’t stand, its a cheeky mouse.
He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver’s licence- and he would have crinkles around his eyes that showed he had a sense of humor and he would be tall, the kind of boy all the other girls would like to date.
I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
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.
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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.
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
Children want to do what grownups do.
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.