You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.
I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.
I read whatever the publisher sends me.
Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.
To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.
The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.
Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.
I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
Reading is my passion.
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.
I don't think about being a celebrity.
This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.
Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota.
I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.
No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.
Nobody ever learns anything.
Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.
I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.
If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.
I actually do like traveling.
Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.
That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and it's a joy. That joy is doubled and tripled and quadrupled if you read with other people.
I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."
I never want to be a role model.
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