A good writer is always a people watcher.

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

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?

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever.

That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.