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

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

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

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

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.