If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

When in doubt, shut up.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys