There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same. Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything