Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.