That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena