Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

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.

I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.