The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

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.

Snoring keeps the monsters away.

"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.

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

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.