What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow! -Kaui Hart Hemmings Teen
I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used. -Kaui Hart Hemmings Food
I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. -Kaui Hart Hemmings Humor
