We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.
Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.