What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.