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.

It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.

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