A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."

Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.