Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?
Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
The truth will make you odd.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don’t write because you want to, but because you have to.
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
It’s not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he’s very handsome.
Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you’ve got to fight it.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four...
I didn’t know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face.
When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.