Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.