I love 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I also love Kate Atkinson's 'Behind The Scenes At The Museum' - that's the book that started me writing.
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only.
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.
The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books.
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
