Well, my favorite things in life? Friendships are number one. I’m sure that that’s number one. Number two, I love to read. Number three, I love to be working on a story or a manuscript of some kind or other. I very seldom am bored. The thing that makes me ultimately happy is finishing a manuscript and knowing that it’s good. I like that.
I suppose the satisfaction of writing is that it deals with the chaos of the world and gives it order. And that’s all a paragraph does. That’s all a story does. The reason that I keep writing year after year after year is because I believe in children. It’s a wonderful thing to observe how children cope, how children deal with the realities, how children develop selfhood. I would like to think that these books help kids know who they are. That’s a pretty big order, but that’s what I hope for.
