Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.