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I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.