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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

I hate to cook and love to eat.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

I'm never impressed with myself!

I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I'm having a good time. I can't really write anywhere else.

I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I always wanted to be a character when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters, and I wasn't tall enough for others.

I've always been a doodler.

You have to learn how to write each book.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

I am stuck at 10 years old. I think.

Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.

I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I had lots of favorite books: 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton, 'Paddington' by Michael Bond, 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'Stuart Little' by EB White, 'A Cricket in Times Square,' all the Beverly Cleary books.

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.

I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

I think our job is to trust our readers. I think our job is to see and to let ourselves be seen. I think our job is to love the world.

I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?

My father - he was an orthodontist - was supposed to sell his practice and move down to Florida, but that never happened... I would sometimes spend the summer with him and visit him, but he never lived with us.

I don't know what my mother was thinking, but she entered me in a Little Miss contest - Little Miss Orange Blossom, I think it was. And I don't remember anything about that, except I have one flash-bulb memory of standing on the stage and thinking, 'This is not where I should be.'

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