If it's fiction, then it better be true.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.