I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.