"I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'."

"Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation."

"I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning."

"When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list."

"The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words."

"The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."

"There's the famous thing that the A&ampR man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one."

"I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story."