"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.
Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!
I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.