In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes.

The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.

When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.