My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.