I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't loo….

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to tak….

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I….

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me..

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything..

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book..

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals..