I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

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.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

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