Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.