I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.