Jennifer A. Nielsen

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.