I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That is, "There is literary fiction, and then there are lesser genres." I'm much more clear on the idea that literary fiction is itself a genre. It is not above other genres. It is down there in the muck with all the other genres, and it's doing the wonderful things that it does, but to give it a Y-axis, to make it high and low, just seems absurd. I stand by that.

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

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.