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

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

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?

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."

[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.