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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

My stories are often a little mysterious.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.

My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.

I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.