All alone by the telephone.
Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored
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.
Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
I don't think. . . one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.