I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible