Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.

I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.