I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.