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.

Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.

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.

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

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.