How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

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.

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!