Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

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

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.