It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!

You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, "Oh, thank God all that's over."

If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.

There's something strange about this big pink bunny.