” I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that. “
” The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears. “
” Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader. “
” I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you’re not the center of the universe. “
” If you’re a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you’re watching a lot. You’re trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird. “
” I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie. “
” A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning. “
” If you’re so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven? “
” It’s such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, ‘I read your book as a child and really loved it.’ That’s a tremendous compliment. “
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