My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.

More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.