It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.