Kids Should Read Whatever They Want To

I Would Make Up [theodor] Seuss-like Books At Night When I Was Cleaning Up From The Dinner, You Know, Putting These Little Kids To Bed, Reading Them Rhyming Books. And So That's What I Started Doing. They Were Really Bad. I Have Some In A Box And It Says On The Box, It's A Note To My Kids You Know, When I Die, If You Ever Publish These I Will Come Back And Haunt You.

I Am Certainly A Fearful Person, But Fearless In My Writing. So There's That Other Person Inside.

Books Opened Up A Whole New World To Me. Through Them I Discovered New Ideas, Traveled To New Places, And Met New People. Books Helped Me Learn To Understand Other People And They Taught Me A Lot About Myself. ... Some Books You Never Forget. Some Characters Become Your Friends For Life.

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 Didn't Know Anything About Writers. It Never Occurred To Me They Were Regular People And That I Could Grow Up To Become One, Even Though I Loved To Make Up Stories Inside My Head.