The Impossible Is More Believable Than The

It Was All Because Of His No-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

The Best Morals Kids Get From Any Book Is Just The Capacity To Empathize With Other People, To Care About The Characters And Their Feelings. So You Don't Have To Write A Preachy Book To Do That. You Just Have To Make It A Fun Book With Characters They Care About, And They Will Become Better People As A Result.

I Didn't Become A Good Writer Until I Learned How To Rewrite. And I Don't Just Mean Fixing Spelling And Adding A Comma. I Rewrite Each Of My Books Five Or Six Times, And Each Time I Change Huge Portions Of The Story.

I May Have Ruined My Life, But At Least I Got To Eat Some Really Good Chinese Food.

I Remember My Fourth Grade Teacher Reading 'charlotte's Web' And 'stuart Little' To Us - Both, Of Course, By E. B. White. His Stories Were Genuinely Funny, Thought Provoking And Full Of Irony And Charm. He Didn't Condescend To His Readers, Which Was Why I Liked His Books, And Why I Wasn't A Big Reader Of Other Children's' Books.