Caroline B. Cooney

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.