As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.
Megan McCaffertyWhen you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.
Megan McCaffertyI do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.
Megan McCaffertyPlagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.
Megan McCafferty