It's Not So Much That

We Are Friends For Life. When We’re Together The Years Fall Away. Isn’t That What Matters? To Have Someone Who Can Remember With You? To Have Someone Who Remembers How Far You’ve Come?

[writing] Totally Changed My Life. It Gave Me My Life. Everything Opened Up.

My Characters Live Inside My Head For A Long Time Before I Actually Start A Book. They Become So Real To Me, I Talk About Them At The Dinner Table As If They Are Real. Some People Consider This Weird. But My Family Understands.

I Thought [books Ban] Was Crazy. Really My Thoughts Were "this Is America, We Don't Do This Here" But Of Course I Know A Lot Better Now. And I Wasn't The Only One. Norma Klein Was Writing At The Same Time. Her Books Were Going. So Many Of Us. When You Say To Me, No You Can't Do This I Say, Oh Yes I Can.

I Am Not Scared Of You, I Am Scare Of These Feelings.