What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

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

I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

[With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.