I Thought I Was Going Nowhere. Now

It Is Important That You Say What You Mean To Say. Time Is Too Short. You Must Speak The Words That Matter.

Fairy Tales Dont Tell You That Dragons Are Real, But That They Can Be Defeated!

Writing Is Seeing. It Is Paying Attention.

The Words, "i Have A Dog Named Winn-dixie," Popped Into My Head In The Voice Of A Small Girl With A Southern Accent. I'd Been Writing Long Enough At That Point To Know Not To Ignore That Kind Of Red Flag. The Next Day, I Put Aside What I'd Been Working On, Started With That One Sentence, And Followed It All The Way To The End.

A Typical Day For Me Is I Get Up At 6:00, The Coffeemaker Goes On Automatically And The Computer Gets Turned On. I Pour A Cup Of Coffee, Listen To Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, And Then I Write.