Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

let's do it for Johnny

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.