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I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.

When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn't really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children's theater groups.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I - it's like not seeing my kids: I can't do it for very long.