The truth will make you odd.

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.

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."

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

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

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!