That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.