Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?

Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.

Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one and started hearing from teens. I just got an email from a reader who said that "Thirteen Reasons Why" was the first time they had felt understood. A book shouldn't be anybody's first time feeling understood and that's where censorship bothers me. These books need to be out there.