The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

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.

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

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."

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

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.