If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me -- happy.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.