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I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.