Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within To find where you are going, First see where you have been.

I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives from the inside out. I write humorous poems to tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.