The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.