I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I write to rewrite the moments I’ve lived over in a way that makes more sense to me. I write the moments to heal. I write the moments I hope never happen. And I write the moments I hope will happen.