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I write with teenagers in mind.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

It took me sixteen years to write.

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.