"I don’t feel like I go “into” my head to write. I feel like I channel the characters living inside..."

“I don’t feel like I go “into” my head to write. I feel like I channel the characters living inside me. So process is about clearing the way for them to talk and allow me to write their stories. My characters really are living, breathing, hurting, loving people to me, and putting them on the page always attracts the light that fights darkness. There’s all kinds of hope in that, and it’s something my readers are drawn to.”

- Ellen Hopkins