Mo Willems quotes:

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

My favorite book is my next one. I'm always hoping to make my next book my best one.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It's not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.