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

Children want to do what grownups do.

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

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

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

I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.