Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.

Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?