[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

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

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.