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?

When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

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.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.