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I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel - that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I'd hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.