I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.