That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

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

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.

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.