Quotes from Rodman Philbrick

Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.

What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of game fish.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.