"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

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've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.

My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.