Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.
Call me crazy, but there’s just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.
Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies.
Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.
I’m pretty sure that if you looked up the word “nuts” in the dictionary, you’ll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.
I’ll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they’ll gobble up – and that will make them ask for another.
I was always a good student, but I didn’t read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
I write larger than life. It’s what I do.
I’m not a writer’s writer. I’m not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.
I’m very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.
If I’m writing and a chapter isn’t coming, I just move ahead.
It’s our job – as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles – to find books our kids are going to like.
My style is colloquial storytelling. It’s the way we tell stories to one another – it’s not writerly, it’s not overdone.
People always come up to me and say, ‘you should do standup.’ It’s nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren’t that terrific.
I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.
I love to tell stories. It’s a delight for me.
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
What I’m really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren’t competent readers coming out of middle school, it’s really going to be hard for them in high school.