When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.
Rebecca SteadI remember in junior high school, which is what we called it, suddenly I was looking at myself, almost through other people's eyes, and thought: how does the world see me? So that was one of the things I was really interested in, when I was writing Goodbye Stranger.
Rebecca SteadBut every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
Rebecca SteadI think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.
Rebecca Stead