Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

My characters always like themselves.

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.