They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

I was terrified of funerals.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.