I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard... →
Margaret Haddix
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Mark Haddon
Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book... →
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain... →
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't... →
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one... →
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything... →
The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted... →