I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

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

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

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