My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.

Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.