Whenever I try to map things out they inevitably change. Which doesn't mean I don't map them out — I just try to embrace the better ideas that come along as my fingers are flying around the keyboard mid-draft!

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.

I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

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.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.