In all your getting, get understanding.

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

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

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

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.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.