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

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.