I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The re….

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun..

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be pa….

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over..

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival..

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I w….

And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my cour….

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them..

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it..

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade..

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws..

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far be….

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, intervi….

There's hope around the corner..

And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story ….

bitter is a bad way to live!.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good..

Fail big if you have to, but go down trying..

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was t….

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..