I Love To Talk With Children. I

I Like To Read Fiction Best And I Like To Write Fiction, Too.

Little Kids Are Amazing. They Seem Able To Adjust To Anything.

I Would Make Up [theodor] Seuss-like Books At Night When I Was Cleaning Up From The Dinner, You Know, Putting These Little Kids To Bed, Reading Them Rhyming Books. And So That's What I Started Doing. They Were Really Bad. I Have Some In A Box And It Says On The Box, It's A Note To My Kids You Know, When I Die, If You Ever Publish These I Will Come Back And Haunt You.

When I Started To Write, It Was The '70s, And Throughout That Decade, We Didn't Have Any Problems With Book Challenges Or Censorship.

I Was Shy, But I Stood Up In Front Of The Class And I Gave My Report.i Was Reporting On Books That I Didn't Want To Read. I Was Inventing Books That I Didn't Want To Read.