1. “All of the life changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.”
2. “An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.”
3. “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
4. “When you make a decision, you don’t have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.”
5. “My favourite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one
6. “The difference between children and adults is that they’re shorter – not dumber.”
7. “We create our work for children not because they’re “cute” but because they’re human beings, deserving of respect.”
8. “People think, ‘Hey, I love kid, I want to write children’s books.’ But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake”
9. “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.”
10. “Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of Byzantium in three words.”
