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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves.

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

I have always been a dark writer.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.