The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.

When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.