I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.