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.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

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

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

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