Writing is like a love affair

Once I began to read

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime ..

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams

I spend very little time looking back over my career as a children’s writer, a career that is stretching toward half a century now. I almost never reread the books I’ve published. I don’t even think about them much except as objects on my shelf that require dusting from time to time.

We are all far from home.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

Every morning, right around 6 a.m., I spring awake. I could stay in bed longer if I wanted to, but I'm done with sleep.

How lovely to think …

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

It’s a story almost as old as our culture. A story so filled with hope, with love, with joy that we set a whole season aside for the telling of it. A story so central to our understanding of ourselves that we seek it out again and again.