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'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

I suck at titles.

Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles.

I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

I do have trouble with titles.

Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now.