Andrew Clements

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.