People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.