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

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

Without peanut butter, I might starve.

I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.