"I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new."
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"I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming."
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"I'd love to be an astronaut. I bet you get a better understanding of our planet seeing it from a distance."
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"I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read."
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"I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it."
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"I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out."
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"I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more."
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"With the success of 'Spiderwick,' it's allowed me to be able to have the freedom to really be able to tell the stories that I really wanted to tell, that I've always wanted to tell."
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"I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make."
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"When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive."