Barbara Park

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.