I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.
People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.
Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.
A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.
A shoe that fits one person pinches another.
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
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