I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

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

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.