My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.