I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.
[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.
I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.
No place has delicatessen like New York.
