The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

I think it's important that everyday we think about the work we need to do to make this world a better place. I mean, we should wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's tasks. There's an awful lot of change needing to be made around here.

When you are isolated, you do not have an idea of what's going on in the world. This can be bad for your health.

I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.

I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.