Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.