Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

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.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.

My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.

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.