[With "Summer Sisters" the publisher] sent me on a big book tour. And it was the most wonderful professional experience of my life. I mean it was like Kleenex on every table wherever I was, friends patting friends on the back and they'd cry and I'd cry.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

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

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

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 was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.