I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

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.

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.