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" I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance. "

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" If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving. "

" I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard. "

" I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach. "

" When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh. "

" I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script. "

" In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the stories in my books. I'm still close with my friends from that time, so it's never very hard to put myself back into that place, that voice. "

" I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away. "

" I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen. "

" I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember. "

" I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will be a totally different person tomorrow,' but it never worked. "

" I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once. "

" I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing. "

" On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable. "

" I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book! "

" I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished. "

" I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were. "

" My books are so tame! "

" I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen. "

" I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C. "

" You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there. "

" I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days. "

" Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective. "

" I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting. "