Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting

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.

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 used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.