“For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.”

“I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.”

“I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with friends and cliques and getting picked on, or boyfriend breakups.”

“HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is WHERE you want to b...”

“I don't believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.”