Star people are rare.

She laughed, and the desert sang.

He's so cute, I can't help myself.

Home is everything you can walk to.

Live today like there's no tomorrow!

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

I became a children's author by accident.

Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.

Events become feelings, feelings become events

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

I spend more time being what I am: a writer, not the visiting celebrity.

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

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