I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

The worst things weren't outside of you.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

I love teaching; I love little kids.