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No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.