Every time I write something I think this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

When I write stuff and I help cast it I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

If you're living in your time you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

I decided that if I were to write a teen series I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.