Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.