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Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.