I'm Mostly Influenced By Life, What's Around

Poetry Seems To Sink Into Us The Way Prose Doesn't. I Can Still Quote Verses I Learned When I Was Very Young, But I Have Trouble Remembering One Line Of A Novel I Just Finished Reading.

There's Not Too Much Difference Between Writing A Picture Book And Writing A Collection Of A Hundred Poems Or So, Except That The Bigger Books Take A Lot Longer To Do.

I've Been Influenced By Poets As Diverse As Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, And Edgar Allan Poe.

If You Don't Believe In Dragons, It Is Curiously True That The Dragons You Disparage Choose To Not Believe In You.

Writing Gives Me The Opportunity To Explore Ideas, Play With Language, Solve Problems, Use My Imagination, And Draw On My Own Childhood.