I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.