Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.