A Lot Of People Don't Believe In

In A Way, It Made Him Sad. He Couldn't Help But Think That A Hundred Times Zero Was Still Nothing.

A Lot Of People Don't Believe In Curses. A Lot Of People Don't Believe In Yellow-spotted Lizards Either, But If One Bites You, It Doesn't Make A Difference Whether You Believe In It Or Not.

I Never Think Of An Entire Book At Once. I Always Just Start With A Very Small Idea. In 'holes,' I Just Began With The Setting; A Juvenile Correctional Facility Located In The Texas Desert. Then I Slowly Make Up The Story, And Rewrite It Several Times, And Each Time I Rewrite It, I Get New Ideas, And Change The Old Ideas Around.

Doesn't Every Kid Want To Dig A Hold To China? Didn't You? What About Chinese Children?

I Didn't Become A Good Writer Until I Learned How To Rewrite. And I Don't Just Mean Fixing Spelling And Adding A Comma. I Rewrite Each Of My Books Five Or Six Times, And Each Time I Change Huge Portions Of The Story.