My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.