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

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

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.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

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

I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.