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In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

Most fiction comes from your experience.

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.