Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.

The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

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

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.