I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.

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

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.