We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now..

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of….

I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share ….

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 ….

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….

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.

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

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 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..

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

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..

There's hope around the corner..

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..

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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