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I was a good liar as a child.

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.