I Can't Let Safety And Security Become

I Meet People On The Street Or At Book Signings And They Tend To Treat Me As If They Know Me, As If We're Connected. It's Great.

We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust.

A Lot Of People Worry Much Too Much About What Their Children Are Reading... If A Child Picks Up A Book And Reads Something She Has A Question About, If She Can Go To Her Parents, Great. Or Else They Will Read Right Over It. It Won't Mean A Thing. They Are Very Good, I Think, At Monitoring What Makes Them Feel Uncomfortable. If Something Makes Them Feel Uncomfortable They Will Put It Down.

I'm Really Quite Bad At Coming Up With Plot Ideas. I Like To Create Characters And Just See What Will Happen To Them When I Let Them Loose!

Sometimes I'll Say, "i Wrote That Book," And The Person Will Look At You As If You're Really Strange. One Time That Happened To My Daughter On A Plane. She Was Sitting Next To A Girl Who Was Reading One Of My Books And My Daughter Said, "my Mother Wrote That Book." And The Girl Started To Quiz My Daughter, Asking Her All Sorts Of Questions, Like What Are The Names Of Judy's Children And Where Did She Grow Up. My Daughter Thought It Was So Funny.