As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out makes it really easy to forget that there's a whole community of writers out there, and they love contributing to other writers' success!

The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip.

The YA author community is generally pretty friendly, and they care.

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

It's not about creating something that eight billion people would like. It's about creating something and being able to reach the maybe, like, one million people that would like it a lot.

Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other things that they could be watching or reading or doing.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

If I went to any other college, I probably would have been pre-med. But I felt like I had freedom to do what I wanted to do at Harvard.

I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to help people of all races, ethnicities, and orientations understand that no matter what differences we may think we have, everyone is a human, and everyone deserves to be respected and valued.