Without Peanut Butter, I Might Starve.

Something Awful Happens To A Person Who Grows Up As A Creative Kid And Suddenly Finds No Creative Outlet As An Adult.

I'm A More Skilled Writer Now, But After 23 Books It's Harder To Be Fresh And That's Really Important To Me. I Don't Want To Write The Same Thing Over And Over Again.

I Love Picture Books. I Think Some Of The Best People In Children's Books Are The Ones Who Create Their Own Picture Books. I Wish I Could Say I'm One Of Them, But I'm Not.

Nothing Teaches You As Much About Writing Dialogue As Listening To It.

Ideas Seem To Come From Everywhere - My Life, Everything I See, Hear, And Read, And Most Of All, From My Imagination. I Have A Lot Of Imagination.