Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

When you're with the person you love, you're home.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.