My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

I also learn a lot about everybody else's process. People create in different ways, so that has opened me up to different processes and experimenting. Laurie Keller is a character person, so she came to the project with these blades-of-grass characters that we were able to literally grow a story around.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.