Jean Craighead George

I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.