My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.
I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.
After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it.
We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me.
My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like.
My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.'
It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.
