Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing down' to them, or mimicking their voice poorly, or condescending to them in any way, they will throw the book across the room.

I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.

I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.

When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or so will have some writing on it.

As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do. Everyone breaks into the business in a different way.

Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and visuals can have such emotional impact if you can harness the thematic thread between how scenes look and how your characters feel. I like to tug on that thread.