You Know, Maybe That's All Anybody Wants,

It Can't Be Dead. It Was Alive Just A Minute Ago.

It Seems To Me That We Can’t Explain All The Truly Awful Things In The World Like War And Murder And Brain Tumors, And We Can’t Fix These Things, So We Look At The Frightening Things That Are Closer To Us And We Magnify Them Until They Burst Open. Inside Is Something That We Can Manage, Something That Isn’t As Awful As It Had A First Seemed. It Is A Relief To Discover That Although There Might Be Axe Murderers And Kidnappers In The World, Most People Seem A Lot Like Us: Sometimes Afraid And Sometimes Brave, Sometimes Cruel And Sometimes Kind.

How Can You Love A Little Cat So Much In Such A Short Short Time?

Once 'walk Two Moons' Received The Newbery Medal, I Decided To Write Full-time. Partly Because There Seemed To Be An Audience Out There Who Wanted To Read What I Wanted To Write, And Partly Because I Could Now Support Myself Financially Through Writing.

I Once Fell 20 Feet From A Tree, Was Knocked Unconscious, And When I Picked Myself Up And Straggled Home, My Parents Thought I Was Making It Up. However, When My Brother And I Fabricated A Story About An Encounter With A Bear, They Believed That! So Maybe I Learned Very Early On That Fiction Was More Interesting To Listeners!