Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

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

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 was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

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

I read my books aloud before they were published.