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I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.