You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose
We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.
A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.
The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.
I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.
When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported to this other place, or, in the case of an illustration, I felt like I could walk into the page.
I'm not interested in how people dress.
If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.
With students, one is often in the position where you have to be authoritative about what they're doing and connected to some principle. I prefer not really knowing the answer to anything interesting and I try to encourage that in teaching. If I start to feel certain about something my curiosity goes away, my mind shuts down. I'm sure that's not always true, it's stupid to generalise.