It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.