Librarians Save Lives By Handing The Right

I Try To Create New Characters In Each Book I Write. That's What Makes Writing Fun And Interesting For Me.

I Stop And Think Before I Start A New Book And Ask Myself Do I Really Want To Spend The Next Year Or Two Or Three With These Characters Because If I Don't, Then I Shouldn't Be Writing About Them.

Fear Is Often Disguised As Moral Outrage.

Heavy Petting, That Was Fun! That Was Good. And Frankly, You Know I Wish Kids Would Go Back To It. It's Very Satisfying. And It's Not As Scary. So Many Girls, You Know This. I Mean They Are Having What We Call Sex. Right? They're Having Intercourse. They Don't Want To, They Don't Get Anything Out Of It.

I'm A Rewriter. That's The Part I Like Best . . . Once I Have A Pile Of Paper To Work With, It's Like Having The Pieces Of A Puzzle. I Just Have To Put The Pieces Together To Make A Picture.