Most Writers Adore Their Editors, And I'm

Each Of My Books Has Taken Me A Different Length Of Time To Write - Eight Months For Seesaw Girl, Eight Months For Shard, Three Years For When My Name Was Keoko! The Publisher Takes Another Year And A Half To Work On The Book, So Altogether Each Book Can Take Up To Three Or Four Years To Publish.

I Used To Sit Home With My Computer And Write. After The Newbery, I Probably Spend More Than Half My Time On The Road.

If A Man Is Keeping An Idea To Himself, And That Idea Is Taken By Stealth Or Trickery-i Say It Is Stealing. But Once A Man Has Revealed His Idea To Others, It Is No Longer His Alone. It Belongs To The World.

Most Writers Adore Their Editors, And I'm No Exception.

Why Was It That Pride And Foolishness Were So Often Close Companions?