Heroes

I don’t think that children are stupid, and I don’t think that I need to hold back from what I’m trying to say, and so what I do is tell the story. And I’m a big fan of the story. I don’t think I have to talk down to children. I don’t believe in that, and I don’t think that I have to have a hidden meaning there. I think that my job is to tell the story as clearly as I can, and so writing for children is the same as not writing for children, which is why some of my adult poems that I would’ve considered adult poems have become children’s books without changing a word.