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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.