Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

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.

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

Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face

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

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.