She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel