There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

But listen up Alex Rider.

Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?

Always trust computer games.

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right.

I'm a big girl, Finn.