Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.