People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

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.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

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

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.