I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out.

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.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

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

There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.