I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it