There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.

I like blogs. they're good times.

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.