In A Way, The Characters Often Do

Anyone Interested In The World Generally Can't Help Being Interested In Young Adult Culture - In The Music, The Bands, The Books, The Fashions, And The Way In Which The Young Adult Community Develops Its Own Language.

There Are Certainly Times When My Own Everyday Life Seems To Retreat So The Life Of The Story Can Take Me Over. That Is Why A Writer Often Needs Space And Time, So That He Or She Can Abandon Ordinary Life And "live" With The Characters.

You Can't Say You Want Things To Be Simple And Then In The Next Breath Ask Me To Be Honest.

I've Never Actually Been A Fighter Myself - Fighting Tires Me Out And I'm Not An Efficient Fighter Anyway - But I Have Certainly Seen Other People Have Great Complicated Goes At One Another.

Try Not To Become Disappointed If Someone Doesn't Like A Story You've Written. Stick Up For Your Ideas, But Listen To What Other People Say, Too. They Might Have Good Advice.