Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

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.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.