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

The truth will make you odd.

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. 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 thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.