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.

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.