I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.