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

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've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.

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

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

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

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