Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.