Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything