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.
It’s strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart – even when I’m sure I will.
I can’t let safety and security become the focus of my life.
Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
Like my mother said, you can’t go back to holding hands.
Snoring keeps the monsters away.